How To Install ruby-gollum-lib on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-gollum-lib

ruby-gollum-lib is:

A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

Gollum-lib is the Ruby API that allows you to retrieve raw or formatted wiki content from a Git repository, write new content to the repository, and collect various meta data about the wiki as a whole.

This package provides gitlab’s fork of gollum-lib.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-gollum-lib

Install ruby-gollum-lib Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-gollum-lib

Install ruby-gollum-lib 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-gollum-lib using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-gollum-lib

How To Uninstall ruby-gollum-lib on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-gollum-lib

Uninstall ruby-gollum-lib And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-gollum-lib

Remove ruby-gollum-lib Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-gollum-lib

Remove ruby-gollum-lib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-gollum-lib

Dependencies

ruby-gollum-lib have the following dependencies:

• ruby
• ruby-gemojione
• ruby-github-markup
• ruby-gollum-rugged-adapter
• ruby-nokogiri
• ruby-rouge
• ruby-sanitize
• ruby-stringex

References

• ruby-gollum-lib website

Summary

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