How To Install ruby-xapian on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-xapian on Kali Linux.

What is ruby-xapian

ruby-xapian is:

This package provides Xapian Ruby bindings built for Ruby.

The Xapian search engine library is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It implements the probabilistic model of information retrieval, and provides facilities for performing ranked free-text searches, relevance feedback, phrase searching, boolean searching, stemming, and simultaneous update and searching. It is highly scalable, and is capable of working with collections containing hundreds of millions of documents.

The Xapian Ruby bindings provide an interface to the Xapian library from the Ruby programming language, allowing both indexing and retrieval operations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-xapian

Install ruby-xapian Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-xapian

Install ruby-xapian 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.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-xapian

How To Uninstall ruby-xapian on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-xapian

Uninstall ruby-xapian And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-xapian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-xapian

Remove ruby-xapian Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-xapian configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-xapian

Remove ruby-xapian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-xapian

Dependencies

ruby-xapian have the following dependencies:

• libruby2.7
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6
• libxapian30

References

• ruby-xapian website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-xapian package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.