How To Install ruby-twitter-text on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-twitter-text on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ruby-twitter-text
ruby-twitter-text is:
This library provides text processing routines for Twitter Tweets. The major reason for this is to unify the various auto-linking and extraction of usernames, lists, hashtags and URLs.
Learn more about its usage at /usr/share/doc/ruby-twitter-text/README.rdoc
There are three methods to install ruby-twitter-text 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-twitter-text 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-twitter-text using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-twitter-text
Install ruby-twitter-text Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-twitter-text using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-twitter-text
Install ruby-twitter-text 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-twitter-text using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-twitter-text
How To Uninstall ruby-twitter-text on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ruby-twitter-text package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-twitter-text
Uninstall ruby-twitter-text And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-twitter-text and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-twitter-text
Remove ruby-twitter-text Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-twitter-text configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-twitter-text
Remove ruby-twitter-text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-twitter-text configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-twitter-text
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-twitter-text package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
