Ruby upgrade

[Paul Thompson]

Hi Al,

All is installed and working:-) Thank you very much for your patience,
kindness and assistance. It has been greatly appreciated by me.

Regards,

Paul

On 3/14/06, Al Gordon <runlevel7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/06, Paul Thompson <ubantu001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> >
> > Thank you for all the help so far. One last question, into what
> > dictionary do I install the deb or does it just know what to do? Will
> > I land up with both the old and the new versions of Ruby? Will Rails
> > still know where to look to find the new version of Ruby?
> >
> > Lastly, are you running Radrails as a stand alone or as an Eclipse
> > plug-in? Do you have an opinion on this?
> >
> > Thank you for your patience.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paul
>
> By dictionary, I'm assuming you mean directory.
>
> One of the things that a packaging system does is make sure that
> software gets installed into appropriate directories.  The 'dpkg'
> program is part of the packaging system that Ubuntu uses (apt and/or
> aptitude being the other part) and will make sure that no matter what
> directory you install a .deb file from, it will unpack/install the
> files into th eappropriate location.
>
> A good place to start looking for information about how software is
> installed on Ubuntu systems is the UserDocumentation wiki at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation.  Specifically, you can
> check the Installing Software portion
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingSoftware).
>
> Keep posting if you encounter any problems with the Ruby upgrade, and
> we'll see if we can walk you through the steps required in getting
> them fixed.
>
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