How To Install ruby-opentracing on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-opentracing

ruby-opentracing is:

This package is a Ruby platform API for OpenTracing. In order to understand the Ruby platform API, one must first be familiar with the OpenTracing project and terminology more specifically.

Everyday consumers of this opentracing gem really only need to worry about a couple of key abstractions: the start_active_span and start_span methods, the Span and ScopeManager interfaces, and binding a Tracer at runtime.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-opentracing

Install ruby-opentracing Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-opentracing

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-opentracing

How To Uninstall ruby-opentracing on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-opentracing

Uninstall ruby-opentracing And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-opentracing

Remove ruby-opentracing Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-opentracing

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-opentracing have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• ruby-opentracing website

Summary

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