How To Install ruby-commander on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-commander
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ruby-commander
ruby-commander is:
“Commander” bridges the gap between other terminal related libraries you know and love (OptionParser, HighLine), while providing many new features, and an elegant API.
Features: * Easier than baking cookies * Parses options using OptionParser * Auto-populates struct with options: ( no more { |v| options[:recursive] = v } ) * Auto-generates help documentation via pluggable help formatters * Optional default command when none is present * Global / Command level options * Packaged with two help formatters (Terminal, TerminalCompact) * Imports the highline gem for interacting with the terminal * Adds additional user interaction functionality * Highly customizable progress bar with intuitive, simple usage * Multi-word command name support * Sexy paging for long bodies of text * Command aliasing * Use the ‘commander’ executable to initialize a commander driven program
There are three methods to install ruby-commander
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-commander 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-commander
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-commander
Install ruby-commander Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-commander
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-commander
Install ruby-commander 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-commander
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-commander
How To Uninstall ruby-commander on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ruby-commander
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-commander
Uninstall ruby-commander And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-commander
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-commander
Remove ruby-commander Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-commander
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-commander
Remove ruby-commander configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-commander
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-commander
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-commander
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.