How To Install ruby-metriks on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-metriks

ruby-metriks is:

This is an experiment in making a threadsafe, low impact library to measure aspects of your Ruby. It provides an API for creating and using counters, gauges, meters, timers and utilisation timers as well as methods for reporting metrics to a log file or some other metric aggregation tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-metriks

Install ruby-metriks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-metriks

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-metriks

How To Uninstall ruby-metriks on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-metriks

Uninstall ruby-metriks And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-metriks

Remove ruby-metriks Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-metriks

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-metriks have the following dependencies:

• ruby
• ruby-atomic
• ruby-avl-tree
• ruby-hitimes

References

• ruby-metriks website

Summary

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