From: Phil Dobbin Date: 2011-11-25T07:18:27+09:00 Subject: Re: How to make 1.9.2 my default version using RVM On 24/11/11 21:59, "Fily Salas" wrote: > First of all thank you all for your help! > The biggest problem is that I dont fully understand what MacPorts are or > how they work, I know I installed it because I needed to install > FoxRuby. When someone starts talking about installing something using > MacPorts, or Git I start sweeting (i know i need to work more on the > terminal). > > Since it looks like I have some sort of mass, before I proceed I would > like to have a better understanding about the following. > 1-What MacPorts are and how they work? > 2-What would you guys do, unistall MacPorts than uninstall and reinstall > RVM? MacPorts is like a superior version of Fink. It's a package manager for installing open source software that grabs the tar ball for you, compiles it & installs it into /opt/local. /opt/local, like /usr/local, are preferred destinations for User installs as they a.) don't mess with the System software & b.) won't get overwritten by any OS updates. I'd be tempted to just uninstall ruby19 the description of which I posted earlier & if you used MacPorts to install rvm, uninstall that too (you'll have to Google the vagaries on that particular one though). I wouldn't bother uninstalling MacPorts however. You may need it later on for other projects. The System Ruby, unlike the System perl, is fine to use for development (OS X relies heavily on perl & Apple has tweaked the configure on the OS version), same goes for the System Python. That's OK to use too. If, however, you installed rvm directly from its site there's no need to mess with it. I suggest you spend an hour at the rvm site until you know exactly what it does. Cheers, Phil... -- Nothing to see here... move along, move along