How To Install ruby-rdiscount on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rdiscount
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ruby-rdiscount
ruby-rdiscount is:
Discount is an implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown markup language in C. It implements all of the language described in the markdown syntax document and passes the Markdown 1.0 test suite.
RDiscount is a Ruby extension library for Discount. It can be used as a stand-alone program or within another Ruby program. Ruby-Versions: ruby2.7
There are three methods to install ruby-rdiscount
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-rdiscount 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-rdiscount
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rdiscount
Install ruby-rdiscount Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-rdiscount
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-rdiscount
Install ruby-rdiscount 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-rdiscount
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rdiscount
How To Uninstall ruby-rdiscount on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ruby-rdiscount
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-rdiscount
Uninstall ruby-rdiscount And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-rdiscount
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-rdiscount
Remove ruby-rdiscount Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-rdiscount
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-rdiscount
Remove ruby-rdiscount configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-rdiscount
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-rdiscount
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rdiscount
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.