How To Install ruby-mobile-fu on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-mobile-fu on Kali Linux. ruby-mobile-fu is detect mobile requests from mobile devices in your Rails app

Introduction

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

What is ruby-mobile-fu

ruby-mobile-fu is:

Mobile Fu allows you to automatically detect mobile devices that access your Rails application.

People can access your site from a Palm, Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Nokia, etc. and it will automatically adjust the format of the request from :html to :mobile.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-mobile-fu

Install ruby-mobile-fu Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-mobile-fu

Install ruby-mobile-fu 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-mobile-fu using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-mobile-fu

How To Uninstall ruby-mobile-fu on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-mobile-fu

Uninstall ruby-mobile-fu And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-mobile-fu

Remove ruby-mobile-fu Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-mobile-fu

Remove ruby-mobile-fu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-mobile-fu

Dependencies

ruby-mobile-fu have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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