comp.lang.ruby

Konrad Meyer

10/5/2007 8:54:00 PM

Quoth William Lidinsky:
> I just installed ruby on Fedora 7, but I can't bring up irb.
>
> Details
> -------
> Using the Fedora7 Software Installer
> I installed ruby-libs-1.8.6-2.fc7.i386.rpm
> Then I installed ruby-1.8.6-2.fc7.i386.rpm
> As a result ruby now is in
> /usr/lib/ruby
> /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby
> /usr/bin/ruby
> /usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz
> Also command such as
> ruby -v
> return
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-linux]
>
> BUT I can't find irb. It doesn't seem to exist. Commands such as find,
> locate and whereis can't find it. I also tried other names such as
> irb18, irb186, irb1.8, irb1.8.6 and fxir and fxri.
>
> If anyone has any advice, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Lidinsky

Install irb: yum install ruby-irb

HTH,
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