How To Install ruby-unicorn-engine on Debian 12

Learn how to install ruby-unicorn-engine on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ruby-unicorn-engine is Lightweight CPU emulator framework (Ruby bindings)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-unicorn-engine on Debian 12.

What is ruby-unicorn-engine

ruby-unicorn-engine is:

Unicorn is a CPU emulator which is based on the CPU emulation code from QEMU. Unlike QEMU, it focuses on the emulation of CPU code without a full system emulation, but with the goal to make the emulation extensible and easy to integrate in custom tools. Unicorn provides language bindings for Python, Ruby, and Rust (among others) and has instrumentation hooks for various CPU events. This makes Unicorn well suited for malware analysis and reverse engineering.

This package installs the Ruby bindings.

There are three methods to install ruby-unicorn-engine 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-unicorn-engine 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-unicorn-engine using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-unicorn-engine

Install ruby-unicorn-engine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-unicorn-engine

Install ruby-unicorn-engine 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-unicorn-engine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-unicorn-engine

How To Uninstall ruby-unicorn-engine on Debian 12

To uninstall only the ruby-unicorn-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-unicorn-engine

Uninstall ruby-unicorn-engine And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-unicorn-engine

Remove ruby-unicorn-engine Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-unicorn-engine

Remove ruby-unicorn-engine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-unicorn-engine

Dependencies

ruby-unicorn-engine have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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