How To Install ruby-chronic on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-chronic on Ubuntu 18.04.
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.
There are three methods to install ruby-chronic 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-chronic package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
