Hi. I'm a little confused with a way used in debian to update gem package manager. I'm using ruby1.9.1 package which includes gem1.9.1.
Official site ( http://rubygems.org/pages/download ) says that to upgrade to the latest rubygems you run: gem update --system This doesn't work in debian. There is a warning: gem update --system is disabled on Debian, because it will overwrite the content of the rubygems Debian package, and might break your Debian system in subtle ways. The Debian-supported way to update rubygems is through apt-get, using Debian official repositories. If you really know what you are doing, you can still update rubygems by setting the REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM environment variable, but please remember that this is completely unsupported by Debian. Ok. I want rubygems version 1.8.x. gem1.9.1 --version 1.3.7 Seems like debian includes old version of rubygems. Is there any way I can update it? The following lines don't produce any warnings: sudo gem install rubygems-update sudo update_rubygems I understand the need to remove rubygems using a package manager. But wouldn't it be better to use gem's approach? I mean you could easily remove folders in 'gem env paths' and then /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1 and then /usr/bin/gem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKZ4dbizxNg+uQYBiNHQPv3h7haBEcxscgNoE5dTYHw3pD=h...@mail.gmail.com
