How To Install ruby-gtksourceview2 on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-gtksourceview2 on Debian 9.

What is ruby-gtksourceview2

ruby-gtksourceview2 is:

GTKSourceView2 is a text widget that extends the standard GTK+ text widget. This package contains libraries for using the GtkSourceView2 text widget with syntax highlighting and other features typical of a source code editor in the Ruby programming language.

There are three methods to install ruby-gtksourceview2 on Debian 9. 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-gtksourceview2 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-gtksourceview2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-gtksourceview2

Install ruby-gtksourceview2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-gtksourceview2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ruby-gtksourceview2

Install ruby-gtksourceview2 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-gtksourceview2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-gtksourceview2

How To Uninstall ruby-gtksourceview2 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the ruby-gtksourceview2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-gtksourceview2

Uninstall ruby-gtksourceview2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-gtksourceview2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-gtksourceview2

Remove ruby-gtksourceview2 Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-gtksourceview2 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-gtksourceview2

Remove ruby-gtksourceview2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ruby-gtksourceview2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-gtksourceview2

Dependencies

ruby-gtksourceview2 have the following dependencies:

• ruby-gtk2
• ruby-cairo-gobject
• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libfontconfig1
• libfreetype6
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgmp10
• libgtk2.0-0
• libgtksourceview2.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• libpangoft2-1.0-0
• libruby2.3
• ruby

References

• ruby-gtksourceview2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-gtksourceview2 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.