From: Aaron Kulbe <akulbe@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T03:05:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Ruby

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On 6/13/07, Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
Here is my tutorial for installing Ruby/Rails on Ubuntu.  I hope this is
helpful.

http://eyesontheprize.wordpress.com/2006/08/15/installing-ruby-and-rails-on-ubuntu/

Cheers,

Aaron Kulbe

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