How To Install ruby-sanitize on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-sanitize on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ruby-sanitize
ruby-sanitize is:
Sanitize is a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer. Given a list of acceptable elements and attributes, Sanitize will remove all unacceptable HTML from a string.
Using a simple configuration syntax, you can tell Sanitize to allow certain elements, certain attributes within those elements, and even certain URL protocols within attributes that contain URLs. Any HTML elements or attributes that you don’t explicitly allow will be removed.
Because it’s based on Nokogiri, a full-fledged HTML parser, rather than a bunch of fragile regular expressions, Sanitize has no trouble dealing with malformed or maliciously-formed HTML and returning safe output.
There are three methods to install ruby-sanitize 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-sanitize 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-sanitize using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-sanitize
Install ruby-sanitize Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-sanitize using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-sanitize
Install ruby-sanitize 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-sanitize using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-sanitize
How To Uninstall ruby-sanitize on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ruby-sanitize package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-sanitize
Uninstall ruby-sanitize And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-sanitize and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-sanitize
Remove ruby-sanitize Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-sanitize configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-sanitize
Remove ruby-sanitize configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-sanitize configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-sanitize
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-sanitize package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
