How To Install ruby-concurrent on Debian 10

Learn how to install ruby-concurrent on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ruby-concurrent is modern concurrency tools for Ruby

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-concurrent on Debian 10.

What is ruby-concurrent

ruby-concurrent is:

This package provides modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, actors, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Go, JavaScript, actors, and classic concurrency patterns.

There are three methods to install ruby-concurrent on Debian 10. 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-concurrent 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-concurrent using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-concurrent

Install ruby-concurrent Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-concurrent

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-concurrent

How To Uninstall ruby-concurrent on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-concurrent

Uninstall ruby-concurrent And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-concurrent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-concurrent

Remove ruby-concurrent Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-concurrent configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-concurrent

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-concurrent have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-concurrent package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.