How To Install ruby-rack-accept on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rack-accept on Kali Linux. ruby-rack-accept is suite of tools for interpreting HTTP Accept family for Ruby/Rack

Introduction

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

What is ruby-rack-accept

ruby-rack-accept is:

Rack-Accept is a suite of tools for Ruby/Rack applications that eases the complexity of building and interpreting the Accept*family of HTTP request headers. It has full support for the Accept, Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, and Accept-Language HTTP request headers.

It implements the Rack middleware interface and may be used with any Rack-based application.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rack-accept

Install ruby-rack-accept Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-rack-accept

Install ruby-rack-accept 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-rack-accept using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rack-accept

How To Uninstall ruby-rack-accept on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-rack-accept

Uninstall ruby-rack-accept And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-rack-accept

Remove ruby-rack-accept Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-rack-accept

Remove ruby-rack-accept configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-rack-accept

Dependencies

ruby-rack-accept have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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