Installing Piston

Many forever thanks to http://codeintensity.blogspot.com/2008/03/svn-externals-are-evil-use-piston-or.html

svn: http://piston.rubyforge.org/usage.html

NOTE: You do not want "gem"– you want "rubygems"

Condensed version, commands only (commands with output follow).

sudo aptitude install rubygems
Y
sudo gem install --include-dependencies piston

Commands (same as above) with the output they give:

ben@server:~$ sudo aptitude install rubygems
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information     
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done        
Building tag database... Done   
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  irb1.8 libgems-ruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8
  rdoc1.8 ruby ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev
The following packages have been kept back:
  apache-common apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common
  bind9-host clamav clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam dnsutils
  file libapache2-mod-php5 libbind9-0 libclamav2 libcomerr2 libdns22
  libfreetype6 libisc11 libisccc0 libisccfg1 libkrb53 liblwres9 libmagic1
  libneon26 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpam0g-dev libpcre3
  libpq4 librpcsecgss3 libss2 libssl-dev libssl0.9.7 libssl0.9.8 libt1-5
  libuuid1 libxml2 linux-image-2.6-k7 locales mysql-server-5.0 nano
  nfs-common openssl php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-gd php5-imap
  php5-mysql phpmyadmin rsync unrar vim vim-common vim-runtime vim-tiny
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  irb1.8 libgems-ruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8
  rdoc1.8 ruby ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev rubygems
0 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
Need to get 3719kB of archives. After unpacking 11.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

ben@server:~$ sudo gem install --include-dependencies piston
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Successfully installed piston-1.4.0-

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