How To Install ruby-api-pagination on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-api-pagination on Ubuntu 18.04. ruby-api-pagination is API pagination support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-api-pagination on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is ruby-api-pagination

ruby-api-pagination is:

This package provide Link header pagination for Rails and Grape APIs, following the proposed RFC 5988 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988) standard for Web linking to include pagination information in the response HTTP headers instead of in the body of the response.

There are three methods to install ruby-api-pagination 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-api-pagination 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-api-pagination using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-api-pagination

Install ruby-api-pagination Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-api-pagination using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ruby-api-pagination

Install ruby-api-pagination 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-api-pagination using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-api-pagination

How To Uninstall ruby-api-pagination on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the ruby-api-pagination package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-api-pagination

Uninstall ruby-api-pagination And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-api-pagination and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-api-pagination

Remove ruby-api-pagination Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-api-pagination configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-api-pagination

Remove ruby-api-pagination configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ruby-api-pagination configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-api-pagination

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-api-pagination package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.