Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> In article <PB906.237244$76.5266681 / news1.rdc1.ab.home.com>,
> Pete McBreen, McBreen.Consulting <mcbreenp / cadvision.com> wrote:
> >Anybody know what it would take to get Ruby into the standard GNU Linux
> >distributions?
> 
> Debian has it (or at least they have a .deb for it), but it's ruby 1.4.
> Check out: http://www.debian.org/ and the 'debian packages ' link.

debian/woody has ruby 1.6.1 (as someone mentioned) plus *many* extras
already packaged:

druby          <none>         (no description available)
eruby          <none>         (no description available)
libamstd-ruby  1.9.5-1        Aoki Minero's STandarD library.
libapache-mod- <none>         (no description available)
libcurses-ruby 1.6.1-15       Curses interface for scripting language
Ruby
libdbm-ruby    1.6.1-15       DBM interface for scripting language Ruby.
libeb-ruby     <none>         (no description available)
libgdbm-ruby   1.6.1-15       GDBM interface for scripting language
Ruby.
libgtk-imlib-r <none>         (no description available)
libgtk-ruby    0.24.0pre20001 Gtk+ interface for scripting language
Ruby.
libkakasi-ruby <none>         (no description available)
libmd5-ruby    <none>         (no description available)
libnet-acl-rub <none>         (no description available)
libnkf-ruby    <none>         (no description available)
liboptparse-ru 0.7.5-2        A command line option parser class for
Ruby.
libpcap-ruby   <none>         (no description available)
libpty-ruby    <none>         (no description available)
libreadline-ru 1.6.1-15       Readline interface for the scripting
languag
libruby        1.6.1-15       Libraries necessary to run the ruby.
libsdbm-ruby   <none>         (no description available)
libshadow-ruby <none>         (no description available)
libstrscan-rub 0.5.8-4        Fast string scanning library for Ruby.
libsufary-ruby <none>         (no description available)
libtcltk-ruby  <none>         (no description available)
libtk-ruby     <none>         (no description available)
libtmail-ruby  <none>         (no description available)
libuconv-ruby  <none>         (no description available)
libxml-parser- <none>         (no description available)
ruby           1.6.1-15       An interpreter of object-oriented
scripting 
ruby-dev       1.6.1-15       Header files for compiling extension
modules
ruby-elisp     1.6.1-16       Emacs-lisp ruby-mode for the scripting
langu
ruby-examples  1.6.1-15       Examples for the scripting language Ruby.
ruby-manual    1.4.6-2        Manual for the scripting language Ruby.
rubyunit       <none>         (no description available)