How To Install ruby-truncato on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-truncato on Debian 11.
What is ruby-truncato
ruby-truncato is:
Ruby tool for truncating HTML strings keeping a valid HTML markup.
Its main motivation was that existing libs couldn’t truncate a multiple-MB document into a few-KB one in a reasonable time. It uses the Nokogiri SAX parser.
There are three methods to install ruby-truncato on Debian 11. 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-truncato 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-truncato using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-truncato
Install ruby-truncato Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-truncato using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-truncato
Install ruby-truncato 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-truncato using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-truncato
How To Uninstall ruby-truncato on Debian 11
To uninstall only the ruby-truncato package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-truncato
Uninstall ruby-truncato And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-truncato and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-truncato
Remove ruby-truncato Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-truncato configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-truncato
Remove ruby-truncato configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-truncato configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-truncato
Dependencies
ruby-truncato have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-truncato package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.