From: Andrew Stone <stonelists@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T21:51:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems installing rubyzip gem on Debian...can someone help?

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I don't know of a way to upgrade on Debian, but I did just learn of package
called checkinstall.  Basically:

tar zxvf ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.4
./configure
make
checkinstall

I believe this makes Debian "aware" of the custom build by creating a .deb
file and installing it for you.  Sorry, I don't know much more about the
details.  We just used this process and it worked well.

Before we did this we removed any ruby related packages.

Maybe some others can point to the pros/cons of this approach?


-- 
Andrew Stone

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