# How to upgrade Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-upgrade-ruby/78541>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 28, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-upgrade-ruby/78541 "2005-12-28T06:56:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![spiz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@spiz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spiz)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-upgrade-ruby/78541/1 "2005-12-28T06:56:52Z")

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Hi all,

My Mandrake 10.0 (don’t laugh, I’ve been slow to upgrade) has Ruby  
1.8.1. I  
need at least 1.8.2 in order to use Rails, according to the book I  
dissed and  
now am fervently reading.

Is there a simple way of upgrading my Ruby without going through  
dependency  
hell and maybe busting half my other stuff?

SteveT

Steve L.

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**Author:** ![spiz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@spiz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spiz)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-upgrade-ruby/78541/2 "2005-12-28T07:51:02Z")

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Hi,

Do you really have anything that relies on Ruby or its libraries,  
besides Ruby?  
I’m running Mandrake (Mandriva…) 10.2, and it came with 1.8.2. I just  
uninstalled the RPMs for 1.8.2, then compiled and installed 1.8.4 from  
source - no problems.

HTH

-Justin