How To Install ruby-chronic on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-chronic
on Debian 12.
What is ruby-chronic
ruby-chronic is:
Chronic is a natural language date/time parser written in pure Ruby.
Chronic can parse a huge variety of date and time formats. Parsing is case insensitive and will handle common abbreviations and misspellings.
This package provides gitlab’s fork of chronic (original project is unmaintained).
There are three methods to install ruby-chronic
on Debian 12. 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-chronic 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-chronic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-chronic
Install ruby-chronic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-chronic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-chronic
Install ruby-chronic 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-chronic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-chronic
How To Uninstall ruby-chronic on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ruby-chronic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-chronic
Uninstall ruby-chronic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-chronic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-chronic
Remove ruby-chronic Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-chronic
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-chronic
Remove ruby-chronic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-chronic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-chronic
Dependencies
ruby-chronic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-chronic
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.