How To Install ruby-http-cookie on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-http-cookie on Kali Linux. ruby-http-cookie is Ruby library to handle HTTP Cookies based on RFC 6265

Introduction

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

ruby-http-cookie is:

HTTP::Cookie is a Ruby library to handle HTTP Cookies based on RFC

  1. It has with security, standards compliance and compatibility in mind, to behave just the same as today’s major web browsers. It has builtin support for the legacy cookies.txt and the latest cookies.sqlite formats of Mozilla Firefox, and its modular API makes it easy to add support for a new backend store.

There are three methods to install ruby-http-cookie 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.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-http-cookie

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-http-cookie

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-http-cookie using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-http-cookie

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-http-cookie

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-http-cookie

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-http-cookie

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-http-cookie

Dependencies

ruby-http-cookie have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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