# Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 111 on Ubuntu 7.10 - How?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 26, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-patchlevel-111-on-ubuntu-7-10-how/121317 "2007-11-26T21:28:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![lirit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lirit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lirit)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-patchlevel-111-on-ubuntu-7-10-how/121317/1 "2007-11-26T21:28:11Z")

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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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**Author:** ![lirit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lirit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lirit)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-patchlevel-111-on-ubuntu-7-10-how/121317/2 "2007-11-27T04:25:50Z")

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On Nov 26, 5:28 pm, Rit Li [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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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**Author:** ![lirit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lirit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lirit)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-patchlevel-111-on-ubuntu-7-10-how/121317/3 "2007-11-27T06:40:04Z")

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Thank you. It works now.

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**Author:** ![lirit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lirit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lirit)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-patchlevel-111-on-ubuntu-7-10-how/121317/4 "2007-11-27T21:38:01Z")

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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?