How To Install ruby-uuid on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-uuid
on Kali Linux.
What is ruby-uuid
ruby-uuid is:
UUID generator for producing universally unique identifiers based on RFC 4122. These identifiers are useful in distributed applications like diaspora.
A UUID is 128 bit long, and consists of a 60-bit time value, a 16-bit sequence number and a 48-bit node identifier.
To guarantee that UUIDs are unique across all machines in the network, the IEEE 802 MAC address of the machine’s network interface card is used as the node identifier.
Learn more about using this library from /usr/share/ruby-uuid/README.rdoc
There are three methods to install ruby-uuid
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-uuid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-uuid
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install ruby-uuid Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-uuid
using apt
by running the following command:
Install ruby-uuid 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.
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-uuid
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ruby-uuid on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ruby-uuid
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall ruby-uuid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-uuid
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove ruby-uuid Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-uuid
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove ruby-uuid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-uuid
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
ruby-uuid have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-uuid
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.