From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-03-06T03:05:22+09:00
Subject: Re: CentOS 5 and Ruby 1.9.1 - conflict with 1.8.6

On 03/05/2010 05:28 PM, Bill Dalessandro wrote:
> I'm running CentOS 5.4 - I tried to use yum to install ruby, but the
> only version available was 1.8.5. I wanted 1.9.1, so I installed it from
> source and everything works fine.
> 
> My trouble is that now whenever I try to install other packages via yum
> that list  Ruby as a dependency, yum doesn't know I have installed 1.9.1
> and keeps asking to install 1.8.5. I don't want to let that go ahead,
> since I don't want to goof up the 1.9.1 install. Is there any way to get
> yum to recognize that I already have 1.9.1 installed and it doesn't need
> to install 1.8.5?

IMHO the best way to go about this is a) either get a RPM from somewhere 
and install that or b) create the 1.9 version with a specific suffix (so 
the binary is called "ruby19").  Usually it's best not to interfere with 
package managers and let them have their way.  Much less trouble.

Kind regards

	robert

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