How To Install ruby-tty-screen on Debian 12

Learn how to install ruby-tty-screen on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ruby-tty-screen is Library providing cross-platform terminal screen size detection

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-tty-screen on Debian 12.

What is ruby-tty-screen

ruby-tty-screen is:

This library makes is possible for terminal applications to adjust to the terminal’s size. The library works on Linux, OS X and Windows/Cygwin platforms and supports MRI, JRuby and Rubinius Ruby interpreters.

It is a component of the TTY Toolkit.

There are three methods to install ruby-tty-screen on Debian 12. 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-tty-screen 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-tty-screen using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-tty-screen

Install ruby-tty-screen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-tty-screen

Install ruby-tty-screen 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-tty-screen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-tty-screen

How To Uninstall ruby-tty-screen on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-tty-screen

Uninstall ruby-tty-screen And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-tty-screen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-tty-screen

Remove ruby-tty-screen Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-tty-screen configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-tty-screen

Remove ruby-tty-screen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-tty-screen

Dependencies

ruby-tty-screen have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-tty-screen package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.