How To Install ruby-rack-accept on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rack-accept on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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-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 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-rack-accept using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rack-accept
How To Uninstall ruby-rack-accept on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rack-accept package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
