How To Install ruby-rantly on Debian 12

Learn how to install ruby-rantly on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ruby-rantly is Ruby Imperative Random Data Generator and Quickcheck

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rantly on Debian 12.

What is ruby-rantly

ruby-rantly is:

You can use Rantly to generate random test data, and use its Test::Unit extension for property-based testing. Rantly is basically a recursive descent interpreter, each of its method returns a random value of some type (string, integer, float, etc.).

There are three methods to install ruby-rantly on Debian 12. 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-rantly 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-rantly using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rantly

Install ruby-rantly Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-rantly

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rantly

How To Uninstall ruby-rantly on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-rantly

Uninstall ruby-rantly And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-rantly and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-rantly

Remove ruby-rantly Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-rantly configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-rantly

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-rantly have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rantly package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.