Installing 1.8.4

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Hi,

I'm using some libraries which only work properly in ruby 1.8.4. I
currently have 1.8.5. What's the fastest/least painful way to install
1.8.5?
I tried
sudo apt-get install ruby=1.8.5
but this doesn't work.
As you can tell i'm new to ruby/linux/everything.
Help would be greatly appreciated!!!

--Andrei

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Oops! I meant "what's the fastest way to install 1.8.*4*.
I tried
sudo apt-get install ruby=1.8.4
but this doesn't work.
Again, I'd like to install 1.8.4 and NOT 1.8.5.

Andrei Munteanu wrote:

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Hi,

I'm using some libraries which only work properly in ruby 1.8.4. I
currently have 1.8.5. What's the fastest/least painful way to install
1.8.5?
I tried
sudo apt-get install ruby=1.8.5
but this doesn't work.
As you can tell i'm new to ruby/linux/everything.
Help would be greatly appreciated!!!

--Andrei

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Andrei Munteanu wrote:

Oops! I meant "what's the fastest way to install 1.8.*4*.
I tried
sudo apt-get install ruby=1.8.4
but this doesn't work.
Again, I'd like to install 1.8.4 and NOT 1.8.5.

Check out apt-get's documentation and the repository you set up in sources.lst
or what ever it is?

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Hi,

as Terry said before, check if the version is still in the repos you
use. If so, the command you posted should work.

If not, you can either (1) recompile a version from an older
repository/release, or (2) compile vanilla sources from ruby-lang.org.

For (1) prevu is easy to use, for (2) just lookup some generic
install-ruby-on-debian-howto. (basically on ubuntu you'll need
build-essential package and then follow the standard unpack, make,
make test, make install)

Please check details with docs on the web, as I'm not sure here.

J.

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On 8/30/07, Andrei Munteanu <andreim@gmail.com> wrote:

Oops! I meant "what's the fastest way to install 1.8.*4*.
I tried
sudo apt-get install ruby=1.8.4
but this doesn't work.
Again, I'd like to install 1.8.4 and NOT 1.8.5.

Andrei Munteanu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using some libraries which only work properly in ruby 1.8.4. I
> currently have 1.8.5. What's the fastest/least painful way to install
> 1.8.5?
> I tried
> sudo apt-get install ruby=1.8.5
> but this doesn't work.
> As you can tell i'm new to ruby/linux/everything.
> Help would be greatly appreciated!!!