From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T23:03:17+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working?

On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:05 AM, 7stud -- wrote:

> Ok.  I would like to uninstall whatever I installed.  The one click
> installer website says:
>
> The Ruby One-Click Installer for OSX is adding the installed files to
> /usr/local, not replacing Apple's original Ruby. That means you can
> easily uninstall this package or switch to Apple's Ruby again.
>
> When I do this:
>
> /usr/local$ ls
>
> I get:
>
> bin                             man
> include                         mysql
> info                            mysql-5.0.41-osx10.4-i686
> lib
>
> Do you have any idea what I should do to uninstall ruby 1.8.6?  I  
> really
> think the main ruby website should remove the link to the one click
> installer.

Well, if you made a full backup of your start-up drive before you  
installed 1.8.6 (and you should have), you can just restore /usr/ 
local/ from your backup. That's what I would do. If you don't have a  
recent backup, then I can't help you because I have no idea what the  
installer you used installed. Perhaps someone else who has installed  
1.8.6 from the same installer that you used can help and will post.

But maybe you are giving up to easily; maybe you shouldn't uninstall.  
you might try finding and adding the missing Ruby/Tk library files. I  
should think they would be available for download from svn.ruby- 
lang.org.

Regards, Morton