How To Install ruby-xapian on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-xapian
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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-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 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-xapian
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-xapian
How To Uninstall ruby-xapian on Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-xapian
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.