How to Install and Uninstall ruby-spider Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "ruby-spider" package

This tutorial shows how to install ruby-spider on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                ruby-spider
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ruby-spider" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall ruby-spider on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ruby-spider
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ruby-spider package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: ruby-spider
Priority: optional
Section: universe/ruby
Installed-Size: 84
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 0.4.4-2
Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter
Filename: pool/universe/r/ruby-spider/ruby-spider_0.4.4-2_all.deb
Size: 9718
MD5sum: b06462bdf754d3522fb302afc428bb96
SHA1: 10a0462f4e4b261fdac2c9ea5b6c08c677fa4681
SHA256: 2f67dcfea0142cfc47be0775c93b10d0ee461f5922e6fe98127ef08046c1c6e6
Description-en: web spidering library for Ruby
spider handles the robots.txt, scraping, collecting and looping so that
you can just handle the data.
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spider is useful to applications that need gather data from web sites.
Description-md5: 4e032bd2747e64dde86284218f90a10c
Homepage: https://github.com/johnnagro/spider
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu