How To Install ruby-chronic on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-chronic on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• ruby
• ruby-numerizer

References

• ruby-chronic website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-chronic package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.