Robert Citek wrote: > What's nice is that on Debian, Ubuntu, and many other linux distros, > most of the heavy lifting has already been done so that all you have > to do is type some variant of this: > > $ sudo apt-get install ruby irb rdoc
Er, you might want to stick with manually downloading your Ruby software and manually building it and manually installing it. www.fsdev.net uses Ruby on Rails, and it runs on Debian 5. The Debian package comes with Ruby 1.7, which has a bunch of stuff that was backported from Ruby 1.8, but not enough of it. So a lot of (really important) library code doesn't work reliably because it was written for pre-backport 1.7, but when you put it into a more 1.8-like environment it fails. I managed to fix the code bugs myself, but it could be easier to just manually install 1.8 and not have to bludgeon through some more nonsense. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
