How To Install ruby-money 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 ruby-money on Ubuntu.

What is `ruby-money`

ruby-money is:

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

Features

Provides a Money class which encapsulates all information about a certain amount of money, such as its value and its currency.
Provides a Money::Currency class which encapsulates all information about a monetary unit.
Represents monetary values as integers, in cents. This avoids floating point rounding errors.
Represents currency as Money::Currency instances providing a high level of flexibility.
Provides APIs for exchanging money from one currency to another.

There are three methods to install ruby-money 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 ruby-money 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-money using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-money

Install ruby-money Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-money

Install ruby-money 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-money using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-money

How To Uninstall ruby-money on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the ruby-money package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-money

Uninstall ruby-money And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-money

Remove ruby-money Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-money configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-money

Remove ruby-money configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-money

Dependencies

ruby-money have the following dependencies:

References

ruby-money website

Summary

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