How To Install ruby-truncato on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-truncato on Kali Linux. ruby-truncato is tool for truncating HTML strings efficiently

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-truncato using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-truncato

How To Uninstall ruby-truncato on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.