Date: 2005.07.21
In Debian Woody and Sarge (previous stable and current stable trees as of today), the ruby packages are split up into many packages. This has caused problems to Debian users not having enough dpkg-foo skill, which are many.
The situation is corrected in Debian unstable, but it would be a while before the correction trickles down to testing, and even longer to stable.
In the meantime, you can do this instead:
apt-get install grep-dctrl # gives you grep-availablea apt-get install `grep-available -ns Package -F Source -X ruby-defaults` pt-get install `grep-available -ns Package -F Source -X ruby1.8` apt-get install libopenssl-ruby
which would install all ruby packages produced from the official ruby1.8 source tarball.
~ $ grep-available -ns Package -F Source -X ruby-defaults libgdbm-ruby libruby libtcltk-ruby libiconv-ruby rdoc libcurses-ruby libsyslog-ruby libsdbm-ruby libreadline-ruby ri libdbm-ruby libxmlrpc-ruby irb ruby libyaml-ruby libpty-ruby libtk-ruby libtest-unit-ruby libdl-ruby ruby-elisp
~$ grep-available -ns Package -F Source -X ruby1.8 ruby1.8-elisp libopenssl-ruby1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8-examples libdbm-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 libgdbm-ruby1.8 libruby1.8-dbg irb1.8 libtcltk-ruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ruby1.8-dev
Total packages: 23 packages.
~ $ grep-available -ns Package -F Source -X ruby1.8|wc -l 13 ~ $ grep-available -ns Package -F Source -X ruby-defaults|wc -l 20
