How To Install ruby-naught on Debian 12

Learn how to install ruby-naught on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ruby-naught is Naught is a toolkit for building Null Objects

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-naught on Debian 12.

What is ruby-naught

ruby-naught is:

Null Objects can make your code more confident (Confident Ruby is a book by Avdi Grimm on Patterns for Joyful Coding).

While you don’t need a Null Object library, this one offers some conveniences you probably won’t find elsewhere.

Learn more about this library from /usr/share/ruby-naught/README.markdown (It has many examples).

There are three methods to install ruby-naught on Debian 12. 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-naught 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-naught using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-naught

Install ruby-naught Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-naught

Install ruby-naught 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-naught

How To Uninstall ruby-naught on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-naught

Uninstall ruby-naught And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-naught and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-naught

Remove ruby-naught Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-naught configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-naught

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-naught have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-naught package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.