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by snissn 4885 days ago 

    $ time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
    The program 'ruby' can be found in the following packages:
     * ruby1.8
     * ruby1.9.1
    Ask your administrator to install one of them

    real	0m0.060s
    user	0m0.040s
    sys	0m0.016s
1 comments
axomhacker 4884 days ago
Don't know if you are trolling. But if this is genuine: this is rbenv telling you that you have multiple rubies installed.

1. Pick one (just for this session): $ rbenv shell ruby1.9.1

2. And then run the example.

By the way 1.9.1 is really old already, 1.9.3 has a lot more bug fixes.

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alrs 4884 days ago
ruby1.9.1 on Debian isn't ruby 1.9.1.

The Ruby language changed between 1.9 and 1.9.1, so a new package name had to be created.

If 1.9.1 was just called "1.9" it would break all of the packages in Debian that depend on whatever language features were different between 1.9 and 1.9.1.

"ruby1.9.1" in Debian 7.0 provides version 1.9.3.194.

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axomhacker 4884 days ago
The OP's output looked more like rbenv's output though, right? How did you figure that to be debian's message?
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