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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2006 18:17:57 +0100
From:      robert <bsd@bathnetworks.com>
To:        Bakki Kudva <bakki.kudva@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nubie question - Ports - Ruby 1.8.4
Message-ID:  <1146590277.9343.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <f7f43c920605021003l45c85281t49ca7cb68fe1e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f7f43c920605021003l45c85281t49ca7cb68fe1e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:03 -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am learning FreeBSD by installing it on my laptop. I would like to
> install Ruby 1.8.4 which is listed at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ as
> follows:
> ruby-1.8.4_6,1
>     An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
>     Long description | Sources | Main Web Site
>     Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.org
>     Also listed in: Ruby, Ipv6
> 
> However when I go to /usr/ports/lang/  (I installed ports off the ftp
> site) the version I see there is 1.8.2. How do I install the later
> version? Thanks for your help.
> 
> -bakki
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Bakki,

Your ports are out of date, have a look at the manual:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

on how to update.

Rob




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