How To Install ruby-dbus on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-dbus on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ruby-dbus
ruby-dbus is:
This module allows Ruby programs to interface with the D-Bus message bus installed on newer Unix operating systems.
Ruby D-Bus currently supports the following features:
- Connecting to local buses.
- Accessing remote services, objects and interfaces.
- Invoking methods on remote objects synchronously and asynchronously.
- Catch signals on remote objects and handle them via callbacks.
- Remote object introspection.
- Walking object trees.
- Creating services and registering them on the bus.
- Exporting objects with interfaces on a bus for remote use.
- Rubyish D-Bus object and interface syntax support that automatically allows for introspection.
- Emitting signals on exported objects.
There are three methods to install ruby-dbus 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-dbus 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-dbus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-dbus
Install ruby-dbus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-dbus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-dbus
Install ruby-dbus 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-dbus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-dbus
How To Uninstall ruby-dbus on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ruby-dbus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-dbus
Uninstall ruby-dbus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-dbus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-dbus
Remove ruby-dbus Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-dbus configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-dbus
Remove ruby-dbus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-dbus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-dbus
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-dbus package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
