[Bug 1264050] [NEW] ruby on a fresh install is too minimal to use

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Wed Dec 25 06:21:46 UTC 2013


Public bug reported:

On a fresh raring or saucy install of Xubuntu, there's ruby-1:1.9.3 installed, but it's pretty useless as a programming tool because of the lack of support for things like ri(1).  The ri program exists, but is useless because it doesn't have any documentation to work with.  For example, 
ri Array
says
Nothing known about Array.

OTOH, when I installed ruby1.9.1-full, indeed I get a full ruby, with
all the support and an ri that knows its stuff.

So: consider this a request for enhancement: The ruby package should say
it's minimal and suggest how to get the full version.  In the package
description, in an error message when using ri, and so on.  Or your
releases should include the full version.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ruby 1:1.9.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 24 22:10:41 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-25 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ruby-defaults
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ruby-defaults (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy

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