How To Install rabbit on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rabbit on Ubuntu.

What is `rabbit`

rabbit is:

Rabbit is an application to do presentations with RD documents. RD is a simple, easy-to-read, and easy-to-write text format like Wiki. Rabbit has many noteworthy features, which distinguish this application from other presentation tools.

Slide looks are defined with Ruby and customizable.
Various keyboard interfaces.
Mouse gesture support.
Slides can contain many image formats: EPS, SVG, GIMP, and Dia.
Rabbit can be a server and you can access it with the dRuby interface.
and more…

There are three methods to install rabbit on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install rabbit Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rabbit

Install rabbit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rabbit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rabbit

Install rabbit 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 rabbit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rabbit

How To Uninstall rabbit on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the rabbit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rabbit

Uninstall rabbit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rabbit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rabbit

Remove rabbit Configurations and Data

To remove rabbit configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rabbit

Remove rabbit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rabbit

Dependencies

rabbit have the following dependencies:

References

rabbit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rabbit package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.