From: "Oliver M.Bolzer" Date: 2001-02-28T08:10:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:11719] "Programming Ruby" as Debian package Hi! In hope that this news post is relayed to the mailing list, i would like to announce that the online edition of "Programming Ruby" has been packaged as a Debian[1] packge and is hitting more than 100 Debian mirrors world-wide as I am wriging this. Users of Debian GNU/Linux can now easyliy install this great book and I hope this will further help spread the word about Ruby and encourage users to give Ruby a try. Users of the unstable (sid ) tree only need to issue the command "apt-get install rubybook" and voila, the book will be in /usr/share/doc/rubybook as html plus it will be integrated in dwww or dhelp if you have one of them installed. Users of Debian 2.2 (potato/stable) and all earlier versions can download the .deb[2] and install it directly using "dpkg -i" without any problem, as it does not depend on anything else. If anybody is planning to choose a Linux based development platform for their next Ruby project, I'd relally recommend Debian. It has most[3] Ruby libraries packaged and usually the most up-to-date Ruby package, very often directly out of the stable snapshots from CVS. I wish to thank the authors for making their great work available under an open licence and personally allowing me to package it. [1] http://www.debian.org/ [2] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rubybook/ [3] Ruby-related packages in Debian unstable as of today druby - distributed ruby eruby - Embedded Ruby Language eruby-dev - Development files for eruby libamstd-ruby - Aoki Minero's STandarD library. libapache-mod-ruby - Embedding Ruby in the Apache web server libcurses-ruby - Curses interface for scripting language Ruby. libdbm-ruby - DBM interface for scripting language Ruby. libdebconf-client-ruby - uses debconf from Ruby libeb-ruby - EB library interface for the Ruby liberuby - Library for eruby libgdbm-ruby - GDBM interface for scripting language Ruby. libgdk-imlib-ruby - Gtk+ and gdkimlib interface for scripting language Ruby. libgdk-pixbuf-ruby - Gtk+ and gdkpixbuf interface for scripting language Ruby. libgnome-ruby - Gnome interface for scripting language Ruby. libgtk-ruby - Gtk+ interface for scripting language Ruby. libhtml-parser-ruby - HTML parser library for Ruby libiconv-ruby - A Wrapper class of iconv for the Ruby libintl-gettext-ruby - A simple wrapper of GNU gettext for ruby. libkakasi-ruby - KAKASI interface for scripting language Ruby. libldap-ruby - Ruby/LDAP module provides the interface to OpenLDAP library libmysql-ruby - mysql module for Ruby libnet-acl-ruby - Simple Access Control Class for Ruby libnet-irc-ruby - a Ruby library for IRC (Internet Relay Chat) libnkf-ruby - Network Kanji code conversion Filter for Ruby. liboptparse-ruby - A command line option parser class for Ruby. libpcap-ruby - libpcap interface for scripting language Ruby. libpgsql-ruby - PostgreSQL extension module for programming language Ruby libpty-ruby - pseudo tty interface for the scripting language ruby. libreadline-ruby - Readline interface for the scripting language ruby. libruby - Libraries necessary to run the ruby. libsdbm-ruby - SDBM interface for scripting language Ruby. libshadow-ruby - Interface of shadow password for the scripting language ruby. libsnmp-ruby - an interface of UCD-SNMP for the Ruby libstrscan-ruby - Fast string scanning library for Ruby. libsufary-ruby - Ruby module for SUFARY. libsyslog-ruby - UNIX syslog(3) interface for scripting language Ruby libtcltk-ruby - Tk interface for scripting language Ruby. libtk-ruby - Tk interface for scripting language Ruby. libtmail-ruby - mail class library for Ruby libuconv-ruby - Encoding translation module for Ruby supported Unicode and EUC-JP libxml-parser-ruby - The interface of expat for the scripting language Ruby. libzlib-ruby - An extension library to use zlib from Ruby ruby - An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby. ruby-dev - Header files for compiling extension modules for the Ruby. ruby-elisp - Emacs-lisp ruby-mode for the scripting language Ruby. ruby-examples - Examples for the scripting language Ruby. ruby-manual - Manual for the scripting language Ruby. rubyunit - Simple testing framework for Ruby libhonyaku-damashii-ruby - Honyakudamashii client library for Ruby libmhash-ruby - mhash library interface for the Ruby rubybook - the "Programming Ruby" book -- Oliver M. Bolzer oliver@gol.com GPG (PGP) Fingerprint = 621B 52F6 2AC1 36DB 8761 018F 8786 87AD EF50 D1FF