How To Install ruby-librarian on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-librarian on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ruby-librarian
ruby-librarian is:
Librarian is a framework for writing bundlers, which are tools that resolve, fetch, install, and isolate a project’s dependencies, in Ruby.
A bundler written with Librarian will expect you to provide a specfile listing your project’s declared dependencies, including any version constraints and including the upstream sources for finding them. Librarian can resolve the spec, write a lockfile listing the full resolution, fetch the resolved dependencies, install them, and isolate them in your project.
A bundler written with Librarian will be similar in kind to Bundler, the bundler for Ruby gems that many modern Rails applications use.
There are three methods to install ruby-librarian 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-librarian 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-librarian using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-librarian
Install ruby-librarian Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-librarian using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-librarian
Install ruby-librarian 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-librarian using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-librarian
How To Uninstall ruby-librarian on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ruby-librarian package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-librarian
Uninstall ruby-librarian And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-librarian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-librarian
Remove ruby-librarian Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-librarian configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-librarian
Remove ruby-librarian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-librarian configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-librarian
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-librarian package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
