From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-09-23T02:44:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby package for Linux

On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at  2:32:08 +0900, Thomas Adam wrote:
>  --- Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at
>  1:49:04 +0900, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > >  --- Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote: > Ok, I know nothing about
> 
> > Like I said, I know nothing. I think the distro is Red Hat 7.1, but
> > I don't know how to get the machine to tell me.
> 
> ``
> uname -a
> ''

I did that one, but it didn't tell me what I wanted to know:

  Linux betty 2.4.20-20.7smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 14:46:14 EDT 2003 i686
  unknown

> 
> And also doing:
> 
> ``
> less /etc/issue
> ''

This one did the trick:

 Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
 Kernel \r on an \m

> 
> Will help ascertain this. If it is RH, try issuing:
> 
> ``
> rpm -qa | grep -i ruby
> ''
 
  rpm -q ruby
  ruby-1.6.7-2

Does Linux have a remote way to query what packages are
available or a URL with a listing?


-- 
Jim Freeze
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