From: Makoto Satoh <makotosato2@...>
Date: 2002-12-16T11:47:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby installation instruction for Mac and Linux

Hi, Chris,


> Not having much Linux experience at all, and never having had a Mac, are
> there instructions similar to these out there that someone could point me
> to?  I imagine that Linux instructions won't have to be so detailed,

For Linux, I think that it would be better to show how a non-root user 
could install Ruby because most of the users who you aim to are not 
super users. It is very simple to install Ruby as a normal user.

1. Get a source archive of the latest stable version from http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/download.html

2. Unzip and Untar the downloaded source into such like $HOME/tmp.
	$ tar zxvf ruby-1.6.7.tar.gz

3. Change directory to extracted sources, e.g. $HOME/tmp/ruby-1.6.7 .

4. Run configure script with --prefix option. Using --prefix=$HOME will 
install Ruby under your home directory.
	$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME

5. Add $HOME/bin to your command search path by editing your ~/.bashrc 
or something alike.

6. Confirm the installation. Type 'ruby -v'. If the installation 
succeeded, ruby version will be shown.

That's all for Linux or UNIX machines.


--
Makoto Satoh  


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