How To Install ruby-oembed on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-oembed

ruby-oembed is:

An oEmbed consumer library written in Ruby, letting you easily get embeddable HTML representations of supported web pages, based on their URLs. See http://oembed.com for more information about the protocol.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-oembed

Install ruby-oembed Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-oembed

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-oembed

How To Uninstall ruby-oembed on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-oembed

Uninstall ruby-oembed And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-oembed

Remove ruby-oembed Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-oembed

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-oembed have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• ruby-oembed website

Summary

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