How To Install ruby-heroku-deflater on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-heroku-deflater

ruby-heroku-deflater is:

A simple rack middleware, enabling compression of your assets and application in responses on Heroku. It saves CPU cycles on pointless compression of images and binary responses.

It also includes code from https://github.com/mattolson/heroku_rails_deflate.

Before serving a file from disk to a gzip-enabled client, it will look for a precompressed file in the same location that ends in “.gz”. The purpose is to avoid compressing the same file each time it is requested.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-heroku-deflater

Install ruby-heroku-deflater Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-heroku-deflater

Install ruby-heroku-deflater 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-heroku-deflater using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-heroku-deflater

How To Uninstall ruby-heroku-deflater on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-heroku-deflater

Uninstall ruby-heroku-deflater And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-heroku-deflater

Remove ruby-heroku-deflater Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-heroku-deflater

Remove ruby-heroku-deflater configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-heroku-deflater

Dependencies

ruby-heroku-deflater have the following dependencies:

• ruby-rack

References

• ruby-heroku-deflater website

Summary

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