How To Install ruby-charlock-holmes on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-charlock-holmes on Debian 9.

What is ruby-charlock-holmes

ruby-charlock-holmes is:

Character encoding detecting library for Ruby using ICU library. This library provides character encoding detection and transcoding.

There are three methods to install ruby-charlock-holmes on Debian 9. 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-charlock-holmes 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-charlock-holmes using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-charlock-holmes

Install ruby-charlock-holmes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-charlock-holmes

Install ruby-charlock-holmes 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-charlock-holmes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-charlock-holmes

How To Uninstall ruby-charlock-holmes on Debian 9

To uninstall only the ruby-charlock-holmes package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-charlock-holmes

Uninstall ruby-charlock-holmes And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-charlock-holmes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-charlock-holmes

Remove ruby-charlock-holmes Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-charlock-holmes configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-charlock-holmes

Remove ruby-charlock-holmes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-charlock-holmes

Dependencies

ruby-charlock-holmes have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• ruby-charlock-holmes website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-charlock-holmes package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.