How To Install ruby-tokyocabinet on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-tokyocabinet on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ruby-tokyocabinet
ruby-tokyocabinet is:
Tokyo Cabinet is an efficient database library like GDBM and NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed as the successor of QDBM, for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
There are three methods to install ruby-tokyocabinet 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-tokyocabinet 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-tokyocabinet using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-tokyocabinet
Install ruby-tokyocabinet Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-tokyocabinet using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-tokyocabinet
Install ruby-tokyocabinet 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-tokyocabinet using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-tokyocabinet
How To Uninstall ruby-tokyocabinet on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ruby-tokyocabinet package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-tokyocabinet
Uninstall ruby-tokyocabinet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-tokyocabinet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-tokyocabinet
Remove ruby-tokyocabinet Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-tokyocabinet configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-tokyocabinet
Remove ruby-tokyocabinet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-tokyocabinet configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-tokyocabinet
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-tokyocabinet package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
