How To Install ruby-hitimes on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-hitimes on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ruby-hitimes
ruby-hitimes is:
Hitimes is a fast, high resolution timer library for recording performance metrics. It uses the appropriate low method calls for each system to get the highest granularity time increments possible.
It currently supports any of the following systems: * any system with the
POSIX call clock_gettime() * Mac OS X * Windows * JRuby Using Hitimes can
be faster than using a series of Time.new calls, and it will have a much
higher granularity. It is definitely faster than using Process.times.
There are three methods to install ruby-hitimes on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-hitimes 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-hitimes using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-hitimes
Install ruby-hitimes Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-hitimes using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-hitimes
Install ruby-hitimes 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-hitimes using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-hitimes
How To Uninstall ruby-hitimes on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ruby-hitimes package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-hitimes
Uninstall ruby-hitimes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-hitimes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-hitimes
Remove ruby-hitimes Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-hitimes configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-hitimes
Remove ruby-hitimes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-hitimes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-hitimes
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-hitimes package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
