How To Install ruby-cocaine on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-cocaine on Kali Linux. ruby-cocaine is library for running command line commands in Ruby

Introduction

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

What is ruby-cocaine

ruby-cocaine is:

cocaine is used to run command line commands in Ruby. Commands are run using backticks(Ruby 1.8) or Process.spawn(Ruby 1.9).

This library supports interpolated arguments and prevents attempts to break system. This library throws exception if the command returns errors.

Performance can be increased by installing posix-spawn gem.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-cocaine

Install ruby-cocaine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-cocaine

Install ruby-cocaine 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-cocaine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-cocaine

How To Uninstall ruby-cocaine on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-cocaine

Uninstall ruby-cocaine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-cocaine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-cocaine

Remove ruby-cocaine Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-cocaine configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-cocaine

Remove ruby-cocaine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-cocaine

Dependencies

ruby-cocaine have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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