How To Install rubygems on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygems on CentOS 8.
What is rubygems
RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install rubygems on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rubygems.
Install rubygems on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install rubygems using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rubygems
Install rubygems on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install rubygems using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rubygems
How To Uninstall rubygems on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rubygems package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rubygems
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygems on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.