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Package: ruby1.8 (1.8.5-4etch2)

Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby 1.8

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.

This package provides version 1.8 series of Ruby.

On Debian, Ruby 1.8 is provided as separate packages. You can get full Ruby 1.8 distribution by installing following packages. 

  ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev ri1.8 rdoc1.8 irb1.8 ruby1.8-elisp
  ruby1.8-examples libdbm-ruby1.8 libgdbm-ruby1.8 libtcltk-ruby1.8
  libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8

Other Packages Related to ruby1.8

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libruby1.8 (>= 1.8.5)
    Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8
  • sug: rdoc1.8
    Generate documentation from Ruby source files (for Ruby 1.8)
  • sug: ri1.8
    Ruby Interactive reference (for Ruby 1.8)
  • sug: ruby1.8-examples
    Examples for Ruby 1.8

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