Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 111 on Ubuntu 7.10 - How?

Ruby
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The ruby from Ubuntu’s repository is 1.8.6 patch 36.

So I download the 1.8.6 p111 source and:

./configure
make
make install

I have ruby 1.8.6 p111 installed. However, I got some loaderror like
readline…

How can I install the complete ruby, like the from one from Ubuntu’s
repository?

Thanks,

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On Nov 26, 5:28 pm, Rit Li [email protected] wrote:

1st: uninstall the ruby version that came with ubuntu. This is
important since both ruby installation clash (it happened to me but I
don’t remember right now).

2nd: sudo apt-get build-dep ruby1.8 (to grab all the needed
dependencies to compile ruby).

3rd: NOW you can compile ruby.

HTH,

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Thank you. It works now.

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Luis L. wrote:

1st: uninstall the ruby version that came with ubuntu. This is
important since both ruby installation clash (it happened to me but I
don’t remember right now).

2nd: sudo apt-get build-dep ruby1.8 (to grab all the needed
dependencies to compile ruby).

3rd: NOW you can compile ruby.

This looks helpful. One thing I can’t help but wonder is what
might be the implication(s) of doing this as time goes by. Will
one always have to go through this process for updates to ruby?