How to Install and Uninstall ruby-build Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 03,2025

You can also install and uninstall the ruby-build on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "ruby-build" package

This is a short guide on how to install ruby-build on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "ruby-build" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall ruby-build on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ruby-build package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: ruby-build
Version: 20220426-1
Installed-Size: 635
Maintainer: Debian Ruby Team
Architecture: all
Depends: build-essential, curl, libreadline6-dev, zlib1g-dev
Recommends: libsqlite3-dev, libssl-dev, libxml2-dev, libxslt-dev, rbenv
Suggests: autoconf, automake, bison, git-core, libtool, default-jre, rake, ruby-dev
Description: tool to compile and install different versions of Ruby
Description-md5: 0731da5500a70c528fe548bee5b99e57
Homepage: https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build
Section: ruby
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/ruby-build/ruby-build_20220426-1_all.deb
Size: 64492
MD5sum: 2a5798546f04327628312d86f2a6d797
SHA256: 50c34bae27285bb1aac0db0fdf0bdeec5c52c58b8a2378f5c2b1ac12d6ce731a