How To Install ruby-selenium-webdriver on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-selenium-webdriver

ruby-selenium-webdriver is:

Selenium is an umbrella project encapsulating a variety of tools and libraries enabling web browser automation. Selenium specifically provides infrastructure for the W3C WebDriver specification ?? a platform and language-neutral coding interface compatible with all major web browsers.

Selenium uses a custom build system, aptly named crazyfun available on all fine platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows).

There are three methods to install ruby-selenium-webdriver 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-selenium-webdriver 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-selenium-webdriver using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-selenium-webdriver

Install ruby-selenium-webdriver Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-selenium-webdriver

Install ruby-selenium-webdriver 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-selenium-webdriver using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-selenium-webdriver

How To Uninstall ruby-selenium-webdriver on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-selenium-webdriver

Uninstall ruby-selenium-webdriver And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-selenium-webdriver

Remove ruby-selenium-webdriver Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-selenium-webdriver

Remove ruby-selenium-webdriver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-selenium-webdriver

Dependencies

ruby-selenium-webdriver have the following dependencies:

• ruby
• ruby-childprocess
• ruby-zip

References

• ruby-selenium-webdriver website

Summary

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