From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T13:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: compiling ruby on linux

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:12:19 +0900, Samantha wrote:

> On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:18:03 pm Rustom Mody wrote:
>> I need to use ruby 1.8.5 whereas the linux I am using -- ubuntu edgy --
>> gives 1.8.4.
>>
>> Tried to download sources and compile.
>>
>> Seemed to go fine but when I tried to setup gem it barfed saying the
>> zlib library is not available
>>
>> Also the up-arrow key is not working in irb
>>
>> So any pointers to compiling ruby on ubuntu-edgy?
> 
> 
> Have you tried installing zlib?
> 
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=zlib&submit=Search
+...

If you're suggesting rpmfind.net, then you don't know the first thing 
about Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a Debian derivative, so all you need to do is apt-
get install whatever you want.


-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/