How To Install ruby-rubypants on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rubypants on Kali Linux.

What is ruby-rubypants

ruby-rubypants is:

RubyPants is a Ruby port of the smart-quotes library SmartyPants.

The original “SmartyPants” is a free web publishing plug-in for Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit that easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities.

There are three methods to install ruby-rubypants on Kali Linux. 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-rubypants 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-rubypants using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rubypants

Install ruby-rubypants Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-rubypants

Install ruby-rubypants Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rubypants

How To Uninstall ruby-rubypants on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-rubypants

Uninstall ruby-rubypants And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-rubypants and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-rubypants

Remove ruby-rubypants Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-rubypants configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-rubypants

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-rubypants have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• ruby-rubypants website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rubypants package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.