From: Rob Sanheim <rsanheim@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T00:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Remove Ruby 1.8.5?

On 12/21/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> > On 12/21/06, Christopher Latif <christopherl@bredband.net> wrote:
> >> How do I remove Ruby 1.8.5 from linux? I have built it from source.
> >
> > I don't know how to remove ruby. However I just want to share a
> > great tool with you that helps avoiding just this situation.
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
> >
> >
> > the installation procedure is slightly longer when installing,
> > but easy when uninstalling.
> >
> > this is the typical install procedure
> > prompt> cd ~/stow
> > prompt> mkdir leopard
> > prompt> cd ~/leopard/src
> > prompt> ./configure --prefix=/home/user/stow/leopard
> > prompt> make
> > prompt> make install
> > prompt> cd ~/stow
> > prompt> stow leopard
> >
> >
> > this is the uninstall procedure
> > prompt> cd ~/stow
> > prompt> stow -D vista
> >
> Nearly all Linux distributions -- at least the widely used ones -- have
> package management systems, and nearly all of them include a way to get
> the most recent Ruby from a package repository. So it should be simple.
> I've never heard of (or needed) stow.
>
> By the way, at least the three major package management systems --
> yum(Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS and some others), apt(Debian/Ubuntu and
> others) and Portage(Gentoo) have source packages in the repository, and
> installing a package from source is as easy (but takes longer) as
> installing a pre-compiled binary. So the only reason for a direct
> download and install of Ruby 1.8.5 is if you actually want to hack upon
> Ruby itself.

Well, that and you want to use the latest security release that came
out a couple weeks ago - and it hasn't made it into the package
repositories yet.

- Rob