How To Install ruby-irb.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-irb.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. ruby-irb.noarch is The Interactive Ruby

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-irb.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ruby-irb.noarch`

The irb is acronym for Interactive Ruby. It evaluates ruby expression from the terminal.

We can use yum to install ruby-irb.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ruby-irb.noarch.

Install ruby-irb.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ruby-irb.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ruby-irb.noarch

How To Uninstall ruby-irb.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ruby-irb.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ruby-irb.noarch

ruby-irb.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/irb
/usr/share/man/man1/irb.1.gz
/usr/share/ruby/irb
/usr/share/ruby/irb.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/cmd
/usr/share/ruby/irb/cmd/chws.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/cmd/fork.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/cmd/help.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/cmd/load.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/cmd/nop.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/cmd/pushws.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/cmd/subirb.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/completion.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/context.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/change-ws.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/history.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/loader.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/math-mode.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/multi-irb.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/save-history.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/tracer.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/use-loader.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ext/workspaces.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/extend-command.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/frame.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/help.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/init.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/input-method.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/inspector.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/lc
/usr/share/ruby/irb/lc/error.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/lc/help-message
/usr/share/ruby/irb/lc/ja
/usr/share/ruby/irb/lc/ja/encoding_aliases.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/lc/ja/error.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/lc/ja/help-message
/usr/share/ruby/irb/locale.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/magic-file.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/notifier.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/output-method.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ruby-lex.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ruby-token.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/slex.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/src_encoding.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/version.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/workspace.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/ws-for-case-2.rb
/usr/share/ruby/irb/xmp.rb

References

ruby-irb.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-irb.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.