From: "Esteban Manchado Velázquez" <zoso@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T05:20:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Debian

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Hi:

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:51:29PM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> I don't wish to open a can of worms here. I'm not even a Debian
> user, I'm just trying to help a friend.
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> Please refrain if you can from digressing into discussions of politics,
> licenses, package management, rubygems replacements, or "my distro can
> beat up your distro."
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> I met with a friend at breakfast this morning. Coffee shop with killer
> pastries and wi-fi, ahhhh.
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> He's a Debian guy. Our purpose in meeting was to install Ruby and rubygems
> and one other library and then play with it a little. (He doesn't know
> Ruby yet.)
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> He tried an apt-get before I got there. After fiddling a bit, I suggested
> installing from source -- rubygems was complaining about zlib.
> [...]

    Is he using Debian stable? Is it a server? That is supposed to have been
fixed months ago (in sid and testing).

    If he's indeed using stable, you'll have to install a couple of packages
to have a complete Ruby installation. There was a guide somewhere in the Ra=
ils
Wiki (it doesn't work for me right now, network problems?).

    HTH,

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Esteban Manchado Vel=E1zquez <zoso@foton.es> - http://www.foton.es
EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es

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