From: Grant Hollingworth <grant@...>
Date: 2006-11-18T05:22:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing 1.8.5 on Debian

* Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> [2006-11-16 13:33]:
>Lee Benson wrote:
>  You'll need to have an unstable distribution in you
>/etc/apt/sources.list. I don't think there is any backport for stable,
>but you can try installing directly with the .debs found on the previous
>page.

The .debs built for testing and unstable depend on a newer version of libc6 than stable has.

Add testing to /etc/apt/sources.list and then run
  apt-get build-dep ruby1.8
  apt-get source --build ruby1.8

You'll end up with a pile of Ruby .debs that you can install with dpkg -i.