How To Install ruby-rubypants on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rubypants on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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-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 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-rubypants using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rubypants
How To Uninstall ruby-rubypants on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rubypants package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
