Can't find ruby after installation

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I skipped ruby selection while installing mandrake 10.1 with an
intention of building the latest version (1.8.3).
After untarring the download in /usr/local/src, I followed README (1.
../configure 2. make 3. and optional make test (successful)).
"which ruby" returns ruby: but I can't find ruby in /usr/local/bin or
/usr/local/lib.

Where is it?

Thanks in advance.

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Nirav wrote:

I skipped ruby selection while installing mandrake 10.1 with an
intention of building the latest version (1.8.3).
After untarring the download in /usr/local/src, I followed README (1.
../configure 2. make 3. and optional make test (successful)).
"which ruby" returns ruby: but I can't find ruby in /usr/local/bin or
/usr/local/lib.

Where is it?

It's probably in your current working directory (i.e. from wherever you called 'which ruby'). To make sure, take a look at the Makefile that was generated by configure. Search for the 'prefix' variable about a dozen lines from the top.

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You might need to run 'make install' as root to actually install it, right now you have just
compiled it.

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On 5. jan. 2006, at 21.07, Nirav wrote:

I skipped ruby selection while installing mandrake 10.1 with an
intention of building the latest version (1.8.3).
After untarring the download in /usr/local/src, I followed README (1.
../configure 2. make 3. and optional make test (successful)).
"which ruby" returns ruby: but I can't find ruby in /usr/local/bin or
/usr/local/lib.

Where is it?

Thanks in advance.

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jason r tibbetts wrote:

Nirav wrote:

I skipped ruby selection while installing mandrake 10.1 with an
intention of building the latest version (1.8.3).
After untarring the download in /usr/local/src, I followed README (1.
../configure 2. make 3. and optional make test (successful)).
"which ruby" returns ruby: but I can't find ruby in /usr/local/bin or
/usr/local/lib.

Where is it?

It's probably in your current working directory (i.e. from wherever you called 'which ruby'). To make sure, take a look at the Makefile that was generated by configure. Search for the 'prefix' variable about a dozen lines from the top.

During the .configure you can pass the parameters to set that at runtime too, I'm not sure if it was as short as --PREFIX=myPath or not but it was that simple.

-Zach

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Strange!! last time I kept the distro version, and
compiled/build/install 1.8.3 in /usr space using same instructions in
README. It worked then!

Is it possible that configuration script assumes that user will always
keep the linux distro version, but unable to find that in this case and
got confused?

Anyways, thank you all, I will try the options you've provided.