How To Install ruby-discourse-diff on Debian 12

Learn how to install ruby-discourse-diff on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ruby-discourse-diff is Discourse Diff provides inline html diffing for markdown blobs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-discourse-diff on Debian 12.

What is ruby-discourse-diff

ruby-discourse-diff is:

This library has been extracted from [Discourse core] (https://www.github.com/discourse/discourse)

This is a inline html diffing engine forked off of Discourse, it includes various usage such as Inline diff for single paragraph text, HTML markdown of html differences and HTML markdown of markdown differences.

There are three methods to install ruby-discourse-diff on Debian 12. 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-discourse-diff 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-discourse-diff using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-discourse-diff

Install ruby-discourse-diff Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-discourse-diff

Install ruby-discourse-diff 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-discourse-diff using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-discourse-diff

How To Uninstall ruby-discourse-diff on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-discourse-diff

Uninstall ruby-discourse-diff And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-discourse-diff and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-discourse-diff

Remove ruby-discourse-diff Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-discourse-diff configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-discourse-diff

Remove ruby-discourse-diff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-discourse-diff

Dependencies

ruby-discourse-diff have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-discourse-diff package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.