So, why no Ruby Gems yet?

[Gerry Visel]

What do Ruby do?

On 12/1/06, Al Gordon <runlevel7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure about the backporting thing, but I just install rubygems on
> my system using checkinstall, easily making my own .deb for it.  I
> believe that these were the steps I used (going from memory here):
>
> 1. apt-get install checkinstall
> 2. Download rubygems from rubyforge and extract tarball.
> 3. cd to rubygems directory.
> 4. Type: checkinstall ruby ./setup.rb
> 5. Answer some questions.
> 6. Install the resulting .deb package.
>
> According to the rubygems site:
> "Debian Linux: Debian does not automatically include all the standard
> Ruby libararies in the basic Ruby package. As a result, you may need
> to ''apt-get'' libyaml-ruby and libzlib-ruby before you can install
> rubygems."
>
> ... so, you may have to follow that advice on Ubuntu as well.
>
> --
>
>   -- AL --