How To Install ruby-ami on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-ami on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ruby-ami
ruby-ami is:
RubyAMI is an Asterisk Management Interface client library in Ruby built on Celluloid IO and based on EventMachine providing a connection to the Asterisk Manager Interface. RubyAMI is a low level library; it does not provide any features beyond connection management and protocol parsing. Actions are sent over the wire, and responses are returned. Events are passed to a callback you define. It’s up to you to match these up into something useful. In this regard, RubyAMI is very similar to Blather for XMPP or Punchblock, the Ruby 3PCC library.
There are three methods to install ruby-ami on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ruby-ami Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-ami using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-ami
Install ruby-ami Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-ami using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-ami
Install ruby-ami Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-ami using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-ami
How To Uninstall ruby-ami on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ruby-ami package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-ami
Uninstall ruby-ami And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-ami and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-ami
Remove ruby-ami Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-ami configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-ami
Remove ruby-ami configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-ami configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-ami
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-ami package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
