It will install the latest version available to you, depending on your
choice of debian repositories.
Use synaptic, or search your apt-cache to find the name of the latest
version and install a newer version.
I think stable has 1.8.2 currently.
If you need to add new repositories, you can. then apt-get update, and
search for the 1.8.4 version of Ruby.
Debian always prefers stability of package selection over cutting
edge. If you always want the latest, I would suggest Fedora, but that
way lies the infamous "rpm hell", and why I haven''t touched
Red Hat
since the late nineties.
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html has a way to keep
stable, yet install packages from testing when you want to.
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SuSE is RPM based, but yast handles dependencies pretty well.
For Suse the current stable version of 10.0 lets you install 1.8.2,
but suse rpm''s are available here for 1.8.4:
SuSE Yast:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/
SuSE Yum:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/
They show version 1.8.4.16 from April 29th as being the latest for 586:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/i586/ruby-1.8.4-16.i586.rpm
-Sean
>That won''t help you if you want Ruby 1.8.4, though.
>I ended up using the "apt-get source ruby1.8" method from the
testing
>repository, and that worked well.. but still, "apt-get install
ruby"
>should install the latest stable release of Ruby, in my opinion.
