# How to do ruby setup on linux? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 3, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-ruby-setup-on-linux/150075 "2008-10-03T07:57:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muasif80)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-ruby-setup-on-linux/150075/1 "2008-10-03T07:57:28Z")
Hi All, Can anyone explain how ruby can be setup on linux? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muasif80)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 8:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-ruby-setup-on-linux/150075/2 "2008-10-03T08:04:42Z")
Ch Asif wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone explain how ruby can be setup on linux? > > Thanks Which linux? You can install ruby via the distro you are using. Or you can install from source. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muasif80)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-ruby-setup-on-linux/150075/3 "2008-10-03T09:26:16Z")
Daniel B. wrote: > Ch Asif wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Can anyone explain how ruby can be setup on linux? > > > > Thanks > > Which linux? > You can install ruby via the distro you are using. Or you can install > from source. > > Daniel I have Fedora Core 6 on VmWare. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muasif80)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-ruby-setup-on-linux/150075/4 "2008-10-03T22:01:29Z")
> I have Fedora Core 6 on VmWare. Thanks Try “yum install ruby” (But beware that Fedora 6 is well past its sell-by date - that is, it’s no longer maintained, so you’ll get no security or bug fixes. Better to update to Fedora 9 first. If you don’t like the pain of upgrading every year, then choose a different distro with long-term support, like CentOS or Ubuntu LTS) ---
**Author:** ![muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@muasif80](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/muasif80)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-ruby-setup-on-linux/150075/5 "2008-10-03T10:18:15Z")
Ch Asif wrote: > Daniel B. wrote: > > > Ch Asif wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Can anyone explain how ruby can be setup on linux? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Which linux? > > You can install ruby via the distro you are using. Or you can install > > from source. > > > > Daniel > > I have Fedora Core 6 on VmWare. Thanks The following are the steps that I performed to install ruby on my linux machine. I went to [Download Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/) There I found out a section with the heading Ruby Source Code I pick the url of the link for the file using the right click and choosing the ‘copy link location’ in my firefox. Then I went to the shell on my linux and put the following command shell\> wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz This downloaded the ruby source code to my root directory. I extracted the file using the following command shell\> tar -xvf ruby-1.8.7-p72.tar.gz This command extracted the source archieve to ruby-1.8.7-p72 directory. Then I enter into this ruby-1.8.7-p72 directory and executed the following command shell\> ./configure This is actually not a command rather a script, that is run to check the required configurations for the installation purposes. At the successful run of this script I executed the following command shell\> make This make command compiled the code. At the end of the make command I executed the following command shell\> make install This make install command installed the ruby and placed the ruby files in appropriate folders. Thats all to what I did for installing ruby on a linux machine. You can confirm your ruby installation by using the following command shell\> ruby -v This same text is also available on > **[Setting up Ruby on Linux](http://linux-certification.blogspot.com/2008/10/setting-up-ruby-on-linux.html)** > > The following are the steps that I performed to install ruby on my linux machine. I went to http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ There I f...