How To Install ruby-rack-attack on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rack-attack
on Debian 11.
What is ruby-rack-attack
ruby-rack-attack is:
A rack middleware for throttling and blocking abusive requests. It protects your web app from bad clients. It allows whitelisting, blacklisting, throttling, and tracking based on arbitrary properties of the request.
There are three methods to install ruby-rack-attack
on Debian 11. 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-attack 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-attack
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rack-attack
Install ruby-rack-attack Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-rack-attack
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-rack-attack
Install ruby-rack-attack 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-rack-attack
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rack-attack
How To Uninstall ruby-rack-attack on Debian 11
To uninstall only the ruby-rack-attack
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-rack-attack
Uninstall ruby-rack-attack And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-rack-attack
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-rack-attack
Remove ruby-rack-attack Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-rack-attack
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-rack-attack
Remove ruby-rack-attack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-rack-attack
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-rack-attack
Dependencies
ruby-rack-attack have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rack-attack
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.