From: Paul Emmons <pemmons@...>
Date: 2004-05-24T11:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie installation problem: libraries?

On Sat, 22 May 2004 22:03:00 GMT, Tim Hunter <cyclists@nc.rr.com>
wrote:

>It's okay to delete them now. You can always get the tarball again from
>the same place you got it from this time.
>
>P.S.
>If you want to read the source code to the Ruby translator, then you
>should keep the unpacked source files.

Oh, I always keep the tarballs-- if not on the hard disk, then on some
backup medium.  I'm a pack rat :-)

But thank you!  I gather that the procedure people have described for
installing Ruby is pretty standard for tarballs, right (I'm pretty new
at this).