From: Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@...>
Date: 2007-06-13T23:16:31+09:00
Subject: Getting Ruby

Given that Debian and UBUNTU break ruby up into a multitude of sub
installs, I think the comment below from

 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

can be misleading to new users.  


        However, on some platforms, there are package management solutions that make installing Ruby extremely easy.
        
        For example, on Debian or Ubuntu apt-get provides an easy and elegant solution:
        
        % sudo apt-get install ruby irb rdoc

        For irb and rdoc you will need to enable the universe
        repository.

        

Many people will not read the description where it states
        
        On Debian, Ruby 1.8 is provided as separate packages.  You can
        get
        full Ruby 1.8 distribution by installing following packages.
        
          ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev ri1.8 rdoc1.8 irb1.8 ruby1.8-elisp
          ruby1.8-examples libdbm-ruby1.8 libgdbm-ruby1.8
        libtcltk-ruby1.8
          libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8
        
        
apt-get install ruby only installs
        /usr/bin/ruby1.8
        /usr/bin/erb1.8
        /usr/bin/testrb1.8
        /usr/share
        /usr/share/man
        /usr/share/man/man1
        /usr/share/man/man1/erb1.8.1.gz
        /usr/share/man/man1/ruby1.8.1.gz
        /usr/share/man/man1/testrb1.8.1.gz
        /usr/share/doc
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/NEWS.Debian.gz
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/changelog.gz
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/LEGAL.gz
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/COPYING
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/COPYING.ja
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/ToDo.gz
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/README
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/README.ja
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/README.Debian
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/copyright
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/changelog.Debian.gz
        /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8/NEWS.gz