How To Install ruby-dev on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-dev on Kali Linux.

What is ruby-dev

ruby-dev 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 contains the header files and the mkmf library, necessary to make extension library for Ruby. It is also required to build many gems.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Ruby version (currently v2.7).

There are three methods to install ruby-dev on Kali Linux. 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-dev 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-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-dev

Install ruby-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-dev

Install ruby-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-dev

How To Uninstall ruby-dev on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-dev

Uninstall ruby-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-dev

Remove ruby-dev Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-dev have the following dependencies:

• ruby2.7-dev

References

• ruby-dev website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.