From: Rahul Kumar Date: 2010-10-02T13:26:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Can't upgrade ruby on Snow Leopard Jose Hales-Garcia wrote: > On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Rahul Kumar wrote: > >> Macports installs in opt/local/bin which does not get overwritten when >> you upgrade OSX. The gripe I have with the hivelogic way is that it >> installs in /usr and that used to get overrwritten by OSX. > > > Apple will NOT overwrite /usr/local. In my ten years administering OS > X, Apple never has, they never will. It's part of their NeXTSTEP > culture. Strangely, whenever I did an OS upgrade using Software Update, (and I mean the minor upgrades), my /usr/local was always put into 'Deleted Folders' or something. I would have NO /usr/local left. Deleted. In fact, I had to create a /usr/local for Hivelogics installs. iirc, others have also had this problem. Thankfully, OSX does not touch or know about /opt. To the OP, rvm installed with no problems. (I've only failed to install macruby through RVM, but there's an installable download which works fine.) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.