How To Install ruby-rpatricia on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rpatricia
on Debian 11.
What is ruby-rpatricia
ruby-rpatricia is:
rPatricia provides a Ruby library for efficient IPv4 and IPv6 address/prefix storage and lookups. Internally it uses a Patricia trie (also known as radix tree), a data structure commonly used for routing table lookups and supports prefix insertion/removal and best/exact match lookups.
The trie data structure is implemented in C, making rPatricia fast and featuring a low memory footprint.
There are three methods to install ruby-rpatricia
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-rpatricia 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-rpatricia
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rpatricia
Install ruby-rpatricia Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-rpatricia
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-rpatricia
Install ruby-rpatricia 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-rpatricia
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rpatricia
How To Uninstall ruby-rpatricia on Debian 11
To uninstall only the ruby-rpatricia
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-rpatricia
Uninstall ruby-rpatricia And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-rpatricia
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-rpatricia
Remove ruby-rpatricia Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-rpatricia
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-rpatricia
Remove ruby-rpatricia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-rpatricia
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-rpatricia
Dependencies
ruby-rpatricia have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rpatricia
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.