From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-04-05T23:37:30+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get "irb1.8" using Ruby1.8 instead of Ruby1.9.1 ?

El Domingo 05 Abril 2009, Rick DeNatale escribió:
> The Debian packaging system relies on users not installing stuff in the
> same places that the packager does. /usr/bin is one of those places.
>
> When you are installing source on a Debian based system (which would
> include Ubuntu) you need to put it somewhere else., like /usr/local/bin

Yes, you are completely right. I expected installation from sources to create 
ruby1.9 and irb1.9 by default, so I didn0t care about using /usr/bin 
directory, but I was wrong.


> I think you need to somehow force the system to reinstall the ruby 1.8
> package(s), then install 1.9 from source to a safe place.

Yes, that's what I did so irb1.8 was correctly replaced again.

Thanks a lot.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>