How To Install ruby-unicode-display-width on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-unicode-display-width
on Debian 9.
What is ruby-unicode-display-width
ruby-unicode-display-width is:
When printed to the screen, the length of the string is usually equal to the number of cells it occupies. However, there are categories of characters that occupy 2 cells (full-wide), and others that occupy 0. This library provides functions similar to wcwidth() and wcswidth() known from C, to determine the monospace display width of a string.
There are three methods to install ruby-unicode-display-width
on Debian 9. 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-unicode-display-width 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-unicode-display-width
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-unicode-display-width
Install ruby-unicode-display-width Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-unicode-display-width
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-unicode-display-width
Install ruby-unicode-display-width 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-unicode-display-width
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-unicode-display-width
How To Uninstall ruby-unicode-display-width on Debian 9
To uninstall only the ruby-unicode-display-width
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-unicode-display-width
Uninstall ruby-unicode-display-width And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-unicode-display-width
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-unicode-display-width
Remove ruby-unicode-display-width Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-unicode-display-width
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-unicode-display-width
Remove ruby-unicode-display-width configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-unicode-display-width
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-unicode-display-width
Dependencies
ruby-unicode-display-width have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-unicode-display-width
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.