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.
– Matt
Attitude: The difference between ordeal and adventure
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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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.
–
Ian Macdonald | Some of the greatest love affairs I’ve
System Administrator | known have involved one actor, unassisted.
ian@caliban.org | – Wilson Mizner
http://www.caliban.org |
>
FWIW, I’ve mirrored these here as well:
http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30
Ian, when 1.8.2 comes out, just drop me a note and I’ll mirror the new
ones… thanks much!
Yours,
Tom
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On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:38, Ian Macdonald wrote:
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.