How To Install ruby on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby
on Debian 10.
What is ruby
ruby is:
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Ruby version (currently v2.5).
There are three methods to install ruby
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby
Install ruby Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby
Install ruby 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby
How To Uninstall ruby on Debian 10
To uninstall only the ruby
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby
Uninstall ruby And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby
Remove ruby Configurations and Data
To remove ruby
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby
Remove ruby configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby
Dependencies
ruby have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.