I've augered into the dirt trying to get Rubybox installed.

First I installed Ruby from the maemo repositories.

Rubybox refused to load.
Removed Ruby.

Found a bunch of Ruby debs on Gronmayer I think. Installed the lot of them.

Rubybox complains about Unzip now. Found unzip deb.

Unzip complains about unzip-crypto conflicting.

Can't uninstall unzip-crypto. Not listed in the application manager.

I feel like I'm back to running Redhat 5. A dependancy problem at every turn. How can I resolve this? Is there a -force option somewhere?

Anyone have a clue where unzip-crypto came from?


Finally, a serious question as I honestly don't know the answer to this: Why Ruby? What's wrong with Python? Note that I've never looked at source code in either language. So I'm wondering why people use it? What does it bring to the table that C or Python don't have?