How To Install ruby-hiredis on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-hiredis

ruby-hiredis is:

ruby-hiredis provides a Ruby extension that wraps Hiredis. Both the synchronous connection API and a separate protocol reader are supported. It is primarily intended to speed up parsing multi bulk replies.

Hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database, a persistent key-value database with support for atomically manipulating and querying data structures such as lists and sets.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-hiredis

Install ruby-hiredis Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-hiredis

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-hiredis

How To Uninstall ruby-hiredis on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-hiredis

Uninstall ruby-hiredis And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-hiredis

Remove ruby-hiredis Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-hiredis

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-hiredis have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• ruby-hiredis website

Summary

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