From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-09-23T05:51:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby package for Linux

In article <20030922132254.A25494@freeze.org>,
Jim Freeze  <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
>On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at  1:49:04 +0900, Thomas Adam wrote:
>>  --- Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote: > Ok, I know nothing about linux
>> packages.
>> > Can someone tell me if there exists a package 
>> > for ruby with the version:
>> > 
>> >   ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i686-linux]
>> 
>> Depends on the distro, Jim (which you didn't say). The lack of information
>> is appauling. If you're using Debian Testing/Stable then I can say for
>> sure that there is.
>> 
>
>Like I said, I know nothing. I think the distro is Red Hat 7.1, but
>I don't know how to get the machine to tell me.
>

$ uname -a

>> Mind you, I'd be more inclined to download the source and compile it
>> yourself.
>> 
>
>Interesting.
>


I'd second that.  It's very easy to just download the tarfile, untar it, 
run:
(cd into the ruby directory)
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

Phil