On Mar 17, 2010, at 06:56, Jake Winston wrote:
> I have installed the rubygem application (version 1.3.6) on a Debian system by downloading the rubygems tar.gz archive and running the setup.rb command.
> 
> What is the best way to _uninstall_ this application?

Run:

Delete `gem which rubygems` and along with ubygems.rb and the rubygems directory that will be alongside it.

Delete `gem which rbconfig/datadir`

Delete `which gem` 

Optional: