From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2004-03-22T18:38:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Glitches in the Ruby 1.8.1 package

On Sun 21 Mar 2004 at 13:09:36 +0900, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> Just so you know, I'm the guy who tends to rant about using package 
> managers.
> 
> When I decided to finally upgrade to programming in Ruby 1.8 (mostly 
> because of the YAML stuff I'd been reading) on a Red Hat 9 system, I ran 
> into a few problems.  I couldn't find a link to 1.8.1 .rpm package on the 
> ruby-lang.org.  After some searching with Google and a number of dead 
> ends, I found a package at www.caliban.org.  When I went to install it, 
> this package wanted db4 4.1.  Red Hat 9 has db4 4.0.  After more 
> searching, I installed the db4 package from Fedora Core 1.  So, now 
> everything seems to be installed and running well, it just tooks hours of 
> work to make it happen (and apt complains about having two versions of db4 
> installed).
> 
> My thanks to the folks who put together the package, I would have stuck 
> with 1.6.8 otherwise.  I would like to suggest that the rpms should be 
> available from a link on ruby-lang.org.

Hi Matt,

I put together those packages. As you have noticed, they were built on a
Fedora Core 1 system. Generally, in your kind of situation, it's easiest
to grab the SRPM (source RPM) of the package and do a --rebuild of it.
That will build the binary RPMs right there on your own system, which
can be an easier solution than installing different versions of
libraries to satisfy dependencies.

Anyway, I'm glad you're now up and running with 1.8.

Ian
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