Compiling Ruby on Ubuntu – Part 2
Following on from my previous post Installing Ruby on Ubuntu, I tried to install/compile Ruby (and rubygems, rake) on Ubuntu server 7.04. Since Ubuntu Server is a “minimal” installation for use on a server, various development tools need to be installed, I used the following commands:
apt-get install build-essential autoconf manpages-dev
and also
apt-get build-dep ruby1.8
Without doing the last step you get errors building rubygems
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:4:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)
Yes, I realise it’s a bit of a cheat to take the dependencies of the Ubuntu ruby package.
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A very clever use of apt-get (build-dep), I’ve never thought of that before I’m ashamed to say. Works like a charm, thank you.
Todd
21 Nov 07 at 11:32 pm