How To Install ruby-notiffany on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-notiffany on Kali Linux. ruby-notiffany is Wrapper libray for most popular notification libraries

Introduction

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

What is ruby-notiffany

ruby-notiffany is:

Notification library supporting popular notifiers, such as: Growl, libnotify, TMux, Emacs, rb-notifu, notifysend, gntp, TerminalNotifier.

Features:

  • most popular notification libraries supported
  • easy to override options at any level (new(), notify())
  • using multiple notifiers simultaneously
  • child processes reuse same configuration

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-notiffany

Install ruby-notiffany Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-notiffany

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-notiffany

How To Uninstall ruby-notiffany on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-notiffany

Uninstall ruby-notiffany And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-notiffany

Remove ruby-notiffany Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-notiffany

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-notiffany have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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