# Ruby on pure 64-bit computer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-pure-64-bit-computer/76842>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 21, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-pure-64-bit-computer/76842 "2006-11-21T18:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![brad7a0](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@brad7a0](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brad7a0)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-pure-64-bit-computer/76842/1 "2006-11-21T18:00:00Z")

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I recently obtained a AMD x2 5200+ 64 bit cpu and motherboard. I have  
installed  
Debian’s AMD-64 port and plan to test my Ruby scripts on the new machine  
soon.  
Is there anything I need to be aware of when using Ruby in a pure 64 bit  
environment? Any gotchas? I have not checked, but I assume Debian has  
deb  
(binary packages to install), if not I will build Ruby from Source…  
perhaps  
that’s prefered???

Thanks,  
Brad

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**Author:** ![brad7a0](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@brad7a0](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brad7a0)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-pure-64-bit-computer/76842/2 "2006-11-21T18:02:01Z")

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On 11/21/06, Brad T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I recently obtained a AMD x2 5200+ 64 bit cpu and motherboard. I have installed  
> Debian’s AMD-64 port and plan to test my Ruby scripts on the new machine soon.  
> Is there anything I need to be aware of when using Ruby in a pure 64 bit  
> environment? Any gotchas? I have not checked, but I assume Debian has deb  
> (binary packages to install), if not I will build Ruby from Source… perhaps  
> that’s prefered???

FWIW I’ve been running ruby on the amd64 port of FreeBSD for a few  
months with absolutely no issues.

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**Author:** ![brad7a0](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@brad7a0](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brad7a0)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-pure-64-bit-computer/76842/3 "2006-11-24T22:07:12Z")

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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:59:42 +0900, Brad T. wrote:

> I recently obtained a AMD x2 5200+ 64 bit cpu and motherboard. I have installed  
> Debian’s AMD-64 port and plan to test my Ruby scripts on the new machine soon.  
> Is there anything I need to be aware of when using Ruby in a pure 64 bit  
> environment? Any gotchas? I have not checked, but I assume Debian has deb  
> (binary packages to install), if not I will build Ruby from Source… perhaps  
> that’s prefered???

I use Ruby on Debian/AMD64. Debian has .deb packages of ruby, but you’ll  
need to install a rather long list to get the whole standard library:  
ruby, irb, rdoc, libdbm-ruby1.8, libgdbm-ruby1.8, libopenssl-ruby1.8,  
libreadline-ruby1.8, libtcltk-ruby1.8, ruby1.8-dev, libruby1.8-extras,  
rubygems  
(Debian is in need of a nice metapackage for all of it, and we’re  
getting  
too close to the Etch freeze for comfort)

Ruby on AMD64 works just fine.

–Ken