# Modern Ruby RPMS for Old Distros?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modern-ruby-rpms-for-old-distros/122884>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 12, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modern-ruby-rpms-for-old-distros/122884 "2007-12-12T19:11:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modern-ruby-rpms-for-old-distros/122884/1 "2007-12-12T19:11:40Z")

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Does anyone know of a site that has rpms of a reasonable (at least  
1.8) ruby for a variety of older linux distros?

I was getting ready to test some scripts on my servers, and have been  
having problems getting modern enough ruby binaries for older installs  
like Red Hat Enterprise 2.1 AS.

Given the nature of these servers it’s not reasonable to upgrade them  
to a more modern OS, and these servers do not have the development  
packages on them (I found that out after attempting to build ruby on  
one such server where I could spare the cycles).

Failing finding modern ruby rpms for older distributions, can a truly  
static build of ruby work? Adding --disable-shared --enable-static to  
./configure doesn’t seem to work (and yes, that’s on a modern box :).

Thanks all.  
–Kyle

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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modern-ruby-rpms-for-old-distros/122884/2 "2007-12-12T19:26:36Z")

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quoth the Kyle S.:

> Does anyone know of a site that has rpms of a reasonable (at least  
> 1.8) ruby for a variety of older linux distros?

Anything you can use here?:

[http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ruby&submit=Search+](http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ruby&submit=Search+)…

-d

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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modern-ruby-rpms-for-old-distros/122884/3 "2007-12-12T20:26:17Z")

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Not really 🙂 I found that before.  
A source rpm for ruby 1.6.4 won’t quite cut it as far as I know 😉  
–Kyle

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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modern-ruby-rpms-for-old-distros/122884/4 "2007-12-13T21:13:46Z")

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Quoth Kyle S.:

> one such server where I could spare the cycles).
> 
> Failing finding modern ruby rpms for older distributions, can a truly  
> static build of ruby work? Adding --disable-shared --enable-static to  
> ./configure doesn’t seem to work (and yes, that’s on a modern box :).
> 
> Thanks all.  
> –Kyle

Maybe you can install the old OS on a new (or just unused) machine,  
install  
the development libraries, and build a (S)RPM that could be used by the  
server?

Regards,

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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modern-ruby-rpms-for-old-distros/122884/5 "2007-12-13T23:40:43Z")

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Quoth Kyle S.:

> On Dec 13, 2007 2:08 PM, Konrad M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > Maybe you can install the old OS on a new (or just unused) machine,  
> > install
> 
> –Kyle

For lack of anything else. Sorry I can’t think of anything else.

Regards,

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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modern-ruby-rpms-for-old-distros/122884/6 "2007-12-13T21:48:29Z")

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On Dec 13, 2007 2:08 PM, Konrad M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Maybe you can install the old OS on a new (or just unused) machine, install  
> the development libraries, and build a (S)RPM that could be used by the  
> server?
> 
> ## Regards,
> 
> Konrad M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/](http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/)

I’ve been thinking of that, but that’ll mean doing that for three  
different (old) versions of redhat.  
Not exactly a fun time, though doable.

–Kyle