From: Aaron Kulbe <akulbe@...>
Date: 2006-08-08T01:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Ruby Installation

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You may have done some of this already, so disregard the parts that already
apply:

Me personally, I get the latest stable-snapshot.  It is Ruby 1.8.5.

Extract the source somewhere.
cd into that directory where you extracted the source.
Edit ext/Setup
uncomment zlib, ssl, readline

apt-get the following packages:

build-essential
zlib1g-dev
readline5-dev
ncurses-dev

and when I install Ruby from source, I want it to go into /usr/bin rather
than /usr/local/bin, so I set

./configure --prefix=/usr in the first stage

then make

then sudo make install

Cheers,

Aaron Kulbe
On 8/6/06, Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com> wrote:
>
> Erik Veenstra wrote:
> > What's the output of this?:
> >
> >  $ find `ruby -r rbconfig -e 'puts Config::CONFIG["archdir"]'` | grep
> > -wie zlib
>
> I think you've put your finger on the problem. The above command has no
> output. Looking closer, I see that ruby is apparently looking for
> zlib.so under    /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux.
>
> The library is actually under /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/zlib.so (as
> placed by my distribution). This, of course, brings up the question of
> how to correct this. I need to either (a) Tell ruby where the libraries
> are, (b) Move the libraries to where ruby thinks they are, or (c)
> Recompile ruby to be in /usr/bin - which is where the distribution put
> it. To me, (c) looks the least error prone - but I'm sure willing to
> listen to other suggestions. Almost everyone here knows more about ruby
> than I do.
>
> Thanks - and all help is appreciated
> ---Michael
>
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