Ruby package for Linux

[Jim Freeze]

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]

 

[Jim Freeze]

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.

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

Interesting.

 

[Jim Menard]

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.

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

Jim,

I just installed 1.8.0. All you have to do is grab the source from
ruby-lang.org and type "configure", "make", and "make install". (You may
have to be root or use the "sudo" command to perform the install.)

I had problems with the CVS version because RedHat 7.1 is so old. The CVS
Ruby source comes without the configure script, which is generated by
autoconf. When I ran autoconf, it notified me that I needed a newer version
of autoconf. That's when I tried the source from ruby-lang.org.

Jim

 

[Jim Freeze]

``
uname -a
''

I did that one, but it didn't tell me what I wanted to know:

Linux betty 2.4.20-20.7smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 14:46:14 EDT 2003 i686
unknown

And also doing:

``
less /etc/issue
''

This one did the trick:

Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
Kernel \r on an \m

Will help ascertain this. If it is RH, try issuing:

``
rpm -qa | grep -i ruby
''

rpm -q ruby
ruby-1.6.7-2

Does Linux have a remote way to query what packages are
available or a URL with a listing?

 

[Jim Freeze]

http://rpmfind.net

Thanks for the link.

But in anycase, just download ruby-1.8.0 from source and compile it. The
instructions are in the README file.

Boy, what a mess linux is with its multiple versions.
I think you are right. I'm not sure I can rely on a package,
especially when I need to keep a Sun version and a Linux
version in sync.

 

[Jim Freeze]

Thanks for the link.


Boy, what a mess linux is with its multiple versions.

----------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^ make that
distro's.

 

[Phil Tomson]

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

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

 

[David Garamond]

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]

i always steal ruby rpms from this site:

http://www.caliban.org/ruby/

it's impossible not to find if you spend a minute on google.

the above rpms work with redhat 7.x. grab the src rpm and rebuild (rpm
--rebuild) on your favorite distro/version.

ruby -v from this package prints:

ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i686-linux-gnu]

PS: thanks, ian

 

[Josef 'Jupp' Schugt]

Saluton!

* Jim Freeze; 2003-09-22, 18:28 UTC:

I'm only a newbie to Linux packages. I have built Ruby many times
from source, for Linux, Sun and FreeBSD. What I don't know about is
linux packages, hence the questions.

Butler: 'The same procedure as with last Unix?'
Lady: 'The same procedure as with every Unix.'

Adopted from 'Dinner for One' shown every year's end in German
television since... Hmm, well, since a time before I was born >;->

Gis,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

 

[Armin Roehrl]

Like I said, I know nothing. I think the distro is Red Hat 7.1, but

$ uname -a

cat /etc/issue
might help, too.

Ciao, -A.

 

[Jim Freeze]

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

Doesn't tell you the distro.


--
Jim Freeze
----------
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash

 

[Jim Freeze]

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]

i always steal ruby rpms from this site:

http://www.caliban.org/ruby/

it's impossible not to find if you spend a minute on google.

the above rpms work with redhat 7.x. grab the src rpm and rebuild (rpm
--rebuild) on your favorite distro/version.

Now that's pretty neat.
Another stupid question: I noticed some binary rpm's
for ruby. Do the binary installs have a fixed install
location?

If not, how to they modify the internal $LOAD_PATH's
that are stored in the ruby binary?

 

[Martin DeMello]

$ uname -a

Does any distro actually put its name in uname? Just checked RedHat (9)
and Debian (3.0), and they only have the kernel info in uname, and the
distribution info in /etc/issue.

martin

 

[Phil Tomson]

Does any distro actually put its name in uname? Just checked RedHat (9)
and Debian (3.0), and they only have the kernel info in uname, and the
distribution info in /etc/issue.

martin

Yeah, you're right. I was looking at it on gentoo, here's what it says:

# uname -a
Linux traveller.home.com 2.4.19-gentoo #1 Mon Apr 29 14:24:34 PDT 2002
i686 GenuineIntel

A quick look made me think it was giving the distro, but closer inspection
reveals that gentoo is part of the kernel name.

Phil