From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-05-06T03:05:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Download version 1.8?

On Tuesday 04 May 2010 01:03:06 pm Cameron Smith wrote:
> Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
> > Cameron Smith wrote:
> >> Where can I download the latest version of the 1.8 branch?
> >>
> >> I need to deploy puppet and it doesn't run on 1.9 yet :(
> >
> > How about http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ ?
> > Or maybe... Which platform do you use?
> 
> Linux - CentOS and Ubuntu

Ubuntu has Ruby packages, and the default ones (I think) are still 1.8.

sudo apt-get install ruby

Or if you want Rubygems:

sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev rubygems

That should give you puppet:

sudo gem install puppet

I bet CentOS has a similar situation.