How To Install ruby-spider on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ruby-spider

ruby-spider is:

spider handles the robots.txt, scraping, collecting and looping so that you can just handle the data.

spider is useful to applications that need gather data from web sites.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-spider

Install ruby-spider Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-spider

Install ruby-spider 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-spider using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-spider

How To Uninstall ruby-spider on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-spider

Uninstall ruby-spider And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-spider

Remove ruby-spider Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-spider

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-spider have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• ruby-spider website

Summary

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