From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-07-20T07:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: compile from source - how difficult?

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Doug. I'll probably give this a try. Since what I have now isn't
> working too well. New adventures in Ruby/Kubuntu, for the ever hopeful, and
> increasingly desperate! ~t.

Tom,
       I've never compiled ruby, or much of anything, for ubuntu
specifically, but I've had to build modern ruby package for work since
some of our boxes run (very very very) old versions of linux, and I've
had to build ruby for my irix box since there are no stock packages of
it.  It's not the _most_ straight forward build, but it's still pretty
easy.  Take it slow, and read that little README in the tarball, it
tells you everything.

You've got very little to worry about!

--Kyle