How To Install ruby-em-redis on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-em-redis

ruby-em-redis is:

Modeled after eventmachine’s implementation of the memcached protocol, and influenced by Ezra Zygmuntowicz’s redis-rb library (distributed as part of Redis).

This library is only useful when used as part of an application that relies on Event Machine’s event loop. It implements an EM-based client protocol, which leverages the non-blocking nature of the EM interface to achieve significant parallelization without threads.

There are three methods to install ruby-em-redis 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-em-redis 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-em-redis using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-em-redis

Install ruby-em-redis Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-em-redis

Install ruby-em-redis 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-em-redis using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-em-redis

How To Uninstall ruby-em-redis on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-em-redis

Uninstall ruby-em-redis And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-em-redis

Remove ruby-em-redis Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-em-redis

Remove ruby-em-redis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-em-redis

Dependencies

ruby-em-redis have the following dependencies:

• ruby-eventmachine

References

• ruby-em-redis website

Summary

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