Brian Candler wrote in post #981455:
> You have the ruby18 and irb18 packages installed, but not ruby and irb
> (which install links to these names)
>
> Try:
> sudo apt-get install ruby irb
>
> - which is of course exactly what Ubuntu was telling you to do.
>
> (I am assuming this is ubuntu 10.04; it's changed for 10.10, there is
> thankfully less fragmentation of the ruby packages)

Brian,

irb worked after "sudo apt-get install ruby irb".
And yes, I am using Ubuntu 10.04.

Thank you for your assistance.

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