How To Install ruby-coderay on Debian 12

Learn how to install ruby-coderay on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ruby-coderay is Ruby library for syntax highlighting

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-coderay on Debian 12.

What is ruby-coderay

ruby-coderay is:

CodeRay is a Ruby library that can scan an input file or text in a web page and encode it as syntax highlighted HTML output.

CodeRay supports many input languages including: C, C++, CSS, Delphi, diff, Groovy, HTML, RHTML (Erb+HTML), Nitro-XHTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL and YAML.

CodeRay can output to HTML, JSON, XML, Yaml.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-coderay

Install ruby-coderay Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-coderay

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-coderay

How To Uninstall ruby-coderay on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-coderay

Uninstall ruby-coderay And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-coderay and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-coderay

Remove ruby-coderay Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-coderay configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-coderay

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-coderay have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-coderay package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.