How to update ruby on linux (ubuntu)?

Question

I\'m newbie on both ruby and linux, so I\'m sure this is trivial but I don\'t know yet. I currently have ruby 1.8.7 installed and I want to update it to ruby 1.9. How can I do t

Answer 1

Generally the verions of programs are linked to the version of your operating system. So if you were running gutsy you would either have to upgrade to the new jaunty jackalope version which has ruby 1.9 or add the respoistories for jaunty to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Once you have done that you can start up the synaptic package manager and you should see it in there.