From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T06:47:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [RH bug number] Re: ruby in the government - 1.6.x -> 1.8.x woes

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, snacktime wrote:

> I believe redhat uses ruby for a lot of administrative stuff, including
> their installer. Might be a reason why it's not the latest version.
>
> A solution is to just install ruby 1.8 in a non standard location like
> /usr/local, and use that version whenever you need 1.8. Then you can use
> gems to keep all the various modules up to date.
>
> I try to stay away from rpm's if I can, but I imagine that you can probably
> find a 1.8 rpm and then given the right command line arguments make it
> install in /usr/local. Then just repeat that on the servers where you need
> 1.8.
>
>
> I'm not sure if /usr/local is the correct location on redhat though, you
> will probably want to check that.
>
> Chris

oh i know - i've got about 100 bits of software (seriously) installed that
way.  ruby, python, perl, gcc, image-magick, ocaml, gsl, vigra, itk, vtk, idl,
and on and on.  i'm just getting tired of it ;-(

-a
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