How To Install ruby-oembed on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-oembed on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-oembed package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.