# Anyone running v1.9.2 with Ubuntu 10.04? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 11, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803 "2010-09-11T00:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803/1 "2010-09-11T00:02:03Z")
I had LoadError problems when my box was running Ruby v1.8.? and v1.9.2. Since I didn’t get an answer to a recent post about the issue, I decided to uninstall both versions and attempt to get on v1.9.2. But there’s no v1.9.2 package available yet for Ubuntu 10.04. So should I attempt to build from source? I saw some posts about using RVM but the last thing I want is another package managing layer. ---
**Author:** ![sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803/2 "2010-09-11T01:07:40Z")
On Sep 10, 7:02 pm, Sam W.er [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I had LoadError problems when my box was running Ruby v1.8.? and v1.9.2. > Since I didn’t get an answer to a recent post about the issue, I decided > to uninstall both versions and attempt to get on v1.9.2. But there’s no > v1.9.2 package available yet for Ubuntu 10.04. So should I attempt to > build from source? I saw some posts about using RVM but the last thing > I want is another package managing layer. Wonder how you installed 1.9.2 and then uninstalled it when there is no package manager for it on Ubuntu. Remember that 1.9.2 removes the “.” directory form the $LOAD\_PATH, meaning a.rb and b.rb in the same directory, require ‘b’ inside a.rb will fail to find it. As for RVM, if you still want to use 1.9.2 and still keep your mental sanity, should give it a shot, is just a manager for ruby and RubyGems, not a full package manager. ---
**Author:** ![sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803/3 "2010-09-11T02:13:13Z")
For testing these things RVM is a strong solution. I have had similar problems and open up two terms and rvm 1.8.x in one and 1.9.x in the other and compare behavior. Stays away from your system once your done you exit and the RVM is gone… RVM is a version manager and keeps its files in a directory structure and works out env/paths/gemlibs. I’m not sure your direct meaning packamangament layer but take 30 minutes and look into RVM it can SAVE a lot a time and fussin about with full install/uninstall on your main system… Read through the start pages I think it would be a nice tool for your circumstance. Take a look here… You might find this helpful : > **[How to install RVM on Ubuntu 10.04](http://www.christopherirish.com/2010/08/25/how-to-install-rvm-on-ubuntu-10-04/)** > > I’ve heard people describe frustrations they had in getting Rails 3 setup on Ubuntu 10.04 with Ruby 1.9.2. I’m going to outline the steps I’ve taken to do this. Let’s get started installing RVM. It should be noted that I [http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/](http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/) Here are some followups [Captcha Check](http://rubyonrails.dreamwidth.org/1713.html) this to be helpful. [http://web2linux.com/installing-rails-3-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/](http://web2linux.com/installing-rails-3-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/) * * * From: Sam W.er [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Reply-To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:02:14 -0500 To: ruby-talk ML [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Subject: Anyone running v1.9.2 with Ubuntu 10.04? I had LoadError problems when my box was running Ruby v1.8.? and v1.9.2. Since I didn’t get an answer to a recent post about the issue, I decided to uninstall both versions and attempt to get on v1.9.2. But there’s no v1.9.2 package available yet for Ubuntu 10.04. So should I attempt to build from source? I saw some posts about using RVM but the last thing I want is another package managing layer. ---
**Author:** ![sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803/4 "2010-09-11T21:26:42Z")
I hacked together a 1.9.2 deb source package based on the 1.9.1. As root, you can build binary packages from a clean chroot as follows: bash $ /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-createbuildenv bash $ cd /var/tmp && mkdir chroot bash $ tar -C /var/tmp/chroot -xzvf /var/cache/pbuilder/base.tgz bash $ mount -t mount devpts /dev/pts bash $ mount proc -t proc chroot/proc bash $ chroot /var/data/tmp/bin/bash bash $ . /etc/lsb-release bash $ locale-gen en\_US.UTF-8 bash $ apt-get --allow-unauthenticated update bash $ apt-get --allow-unauthenticated -q -y install debhelper devscripts fakeroot ruby curl fakeroot pbuilder git-core ssh wget bash $ cd /var/tmp bash $ git clone git://github.com/linterra/ruby1.9.2.git bash $ cd rsp && /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends bash $ fakeroot debian/rules clean bash $ dpkg-build -b bash $ exit bash $ umount chroot/dev/pts bash $ umount chroot/proc bash $ cd chroot/var/tmp/ bash $ dpkg -i libruby1.9.2\_1.9.2.0-1\_i386.deb ruby1.9.2\_1.9.2.0-1\_i386.deb libreadline-ruby1.9.2\_1.9.2.0-1\_i386.deb irb1.9.2\_1.9.2.0-1\_all.deb … etc. You need to have pbuilder already installed on your system. ---
**Author:** ![sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803/5 "2010-09-11T21:27:53Z")
sorry, step 13 should be cd ruby1.9.2: 1. bash $ git clone git://github.com/linterra/ruby1.9.2.git 2. bash $ cd ruby1.9.2 && /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends ---
**Author:** ![sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803/6 "2010-09-11T02:20:50Z")
On 11.09.2010 01:54, Savard, Joseph wrote: > For testing these things RVM is a strong solution. Just want to second that, I’m new to Ruby too and don’t regret every trying rvm; some things even with the nice documentation weren’t clear from the start (e.g. I never realized “rvm use …” doesn’t _permanently_ change the interpreter; you would need an extra parameter for that) but I don’t want to go back. - Markus ---
**Author:** ![sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803/7 "2010-09-11T22:18:48Z")
On 09/11/2010 12:25 PM, Mike Owens wrote: > bash $ locale-gen en\_US.UTF-8 > bash $ umount chroot/dev/pts > > > ## I had LoadError problems when my box was running Ruby v1.8.? and v1.9.2. Since I didn’t get an answer to a recent post about the issue, I decided to uninstall both versions and attempt to get on v1.9.2. But there’s no v1.9.2 package available yet for Ubuntu 10.04. So should I attempt to build from source? I saw some posts about using RVM but the last thing I want is another package managing layer. > > > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). If you just want to get a recent ruby running on one ubuntu host, the easiest thing is to build from source. Of course, that doesn’t give you debs you can copy to other hosts (thanks, Mike, for writing that up). I’ve had no major issues with building ruby on various ubuntu hosts, except a gcc version problem (does not affect the gcc on 10.04) and some issues with tk and ruby 1.8 (does not affect 1.9. If you want ruby 1.8.7 to work with the ubuntu-packaged Tk, make sure you configure ruby with: ./configure --enable-pthread Then do “make” as usual. Then, before the ‘make install’ step, go into ext/tk and do CONFIGURE\_ARGS=‘–with-tcl-include=/usr/include/tcl8.5 –with-tcllib=tcl8.5 --with-tklib=tk8.5’ ruby extconf.rb && make Then go into the tkutil subdir and build it the same way (not sure the args are needed here, but it seems ok). Finally, you can make install. But I guess you don’t need any of this for 1.9.2… just do a generic build. ---
**Author:** ![sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sweb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweb)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-running-v1-9-2-with-ubuntu-10-04/194803/8 "2010-10-03T01:16:05Z")
RVM turns out to be a very good answer to the question of how to get to Ruby v1.9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04. I had some trouble on my desktop machine (separate post) but the instructions on [www.christopherirish.com](http://www.christopherirish.com) (see link below) work flawlessly on my laptop. Thanks very much to Joseph Savard for the incredibly helpful links below. Savard, Joseph wrote: > For testing these things RVM is a strong solution. > > I have had similar problems and open up two terms and rvm 1.8.x in one > and 1.9.x in the other and compare behavior. Stays away from your > system once your done you exit and the RVM is gone… > > RVM is a version manager and keeps its files in a directory structure > and works out env/paths/gemlibs. I’m not sure your direct meaning > packamangament layer but take 30 minutes and look into RVM it can SAVE a > lot a time and fussin about with full install/uninstall on your main > system… > > Read through the start pages I think it would be a nice tool for your > circumstance. > > Take a look here… You might find this helpful : > > [How to install RVM on Ubuntu 10.04](http://www.christopherirish.com/2010/08/25/how-to-install-rvm-on-ubuntu-10-04/%20) > > [http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/](http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/) > > Here are some followups > [Captcha Check](http://rubyonrails.dreamwidth.org/1713.html) this to be helpful. > > [http://web2linux.com/installing-rails-3-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/](http://web2linux.com/installing-rails-3-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/) > > * * * > > From: Sam W.er [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > Reply-To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:02:14 -0500 > To: ruby-talk ML [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > Subject: Anyone running v1.9.2 with Ubuntu 10.04? > > I had LoadError problems when my box was running Ruby v1.8.? and v1.9.2. > Since I didn’t get an answer to a recent post about the issue, I decided > to uninstall both versions and attempt to get on v1.9.2. But there’s no > v1.9.2 package available yet for Ubuntu 10.04. So should I attempt to > build from source? I saw some posts about using RVM but the last thing > I want is another package managing layer.