This blog post of December 2008 says that rubygems is broken on Debian-based systems.
Does rubygems work cleanly on Ubuntu (for both 1.8 and 1.9)?
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I'm not sure about installing with apt-get, but I've never had any problems installing from source. Slicehost has a good article on getting set up.
Andy Gaskell
2009-08-26 06:03:25
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I have it up and running on my ubuntu 9.04. So yes, it is working. I do not clearly remember but I thought I did it by apt-get, the easy way :).
bastijn
2009-08-26 06:04:29
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Yes. At least 1.8 does--I don't use Ubuntu enough to have any reason to install 1.9.
It might take a little bit of tweaking (Google any errors you find), but I've gotten it working fine, from the repositories, on 8.04 (Hardy Heron).
Sam DeFabbia-Kane
2009-08-26 08:04:12