# YARV for ArchLinux

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yarv-for-archlinux/57479>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 11, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yarv-for-archlinux/57479 "2006-04-11T11:38:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mifi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mifi)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yarv-for-archlinux/57479/1 "2006-04-11T11:38:10Z")

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Had some minutes to spend today and thought it would be pretty neat to  
have  
YARV (as announced on  
[http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/yarvMergedMatz.html](http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/yarvMergedMatz.html)) on  
ArchLinux, so i went ahead and created a little PKGBUILD 🙂

one can find it at AUR (ruby-yarv-svn):  
[http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do\_Details=1&ID=4191](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=4191)

installation as usual (aurbuild, qpkg or makepkg yourself)

Not sure if this belongs to ruby-talk, but for all the ruby-addicted  
archers  
out there this is pretty good news 🙂  
after installation one can use it with ruby\_yarv - there are issues with  
rubygems as everybody might expect, so calm down a bit - your favorite  
gems  
won’t run on it (yet).

And it’s also a little reminder for all the other maintainers out there,  
build  
some packages for YARV, people want to try it and there is no reason why  
they  
shouldn’t be able to do it 😉

Not to mention that it would be pretty good advertisement for ruby to  
have  
something to show off, right?

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