Asp Forum - Upgrade to 1.8.4

Stuart Batty

3/31/2006 4:26:00 PM

I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 and currently have ruby 1.8.2 installed. I would
like to upgrade to 1.8.4 but there doesn't seem to be an available deb
package for 1.8.4. Can someone give me some pointers on upgrading using
the source? I don't want to have version collisions or have both
versions installed.

Thanks

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2 Answers

Patrick Hurley

3/31/2006 6:13:00 PM

The big trick on Ubuntu is to make sure you have all the prerequisite
development packages installed before building ruby (i.e. zlib,
readline, etc). Without these you will get a version of ruby to build,
but it will be missing important libraries (without which gems among
many others will not work).

I had assumed this stuff would have been installed, but Ubuntu is
geared toward "normal" desktop users and not developers so these very
common development packages are not installed unless you go out and
get them first. After that ruby builds find and 1.8.4 works like a
champ. I uninstalled ruby (apt-get remove) before installing the newer
build, you could also set the prefix if you do not want it in
/usr/local.

Good luck
pth

On 3/31/06, Stuart Batty <stuart.batty@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 and currently have ruby 1.8.2 installed. I would
> like to upgrade to 1.8.4 but there doesn't seem to be an available deb
> package for 1.8.4. Can someone give me some pointers on upgrading using
> the source? I don't want to have version collisions or have both
> versions installed.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-....
>
>

klunk

9/4/2008 12:52:00 AM

"FACE" <AFaceInTheCrowd@today.net> wrote in message
news:tb8ub4198p5cf7igv1placafkavnkl8khf@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:20:16 GMT in alt.politics.immigration, "klunk"
> <klunk@theothershoo.org> in glistered weave wrote large for all to see:
>
>>
>>"FACE" <AFaceInTheCrowd@today.net> wrote in message
>>news:9i4ub491855fh08cjieptmbc9lgprhas94@4ax.com...
>>> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:51:57 GMT in alt.politics.immigration, "klunk"
>>> <klunk@theothershoo.org> in glistered weave wrote large for all to see:
> <big snip>
>>>
>>> I just looked briefly Canadian political parties and expected to see the
>>> home of marxists and socialists -- a labour party. Apparently that is
>>> not
>>> there, though it seems they tried to start one in that name in the
>>> twenties
>>> and maybe later.
>>>
>>> In the BNA Act there are provisions for a Governor General and, IIRC,
>>> the
>>> PM is supposed to be approved by same. I don't think that is still the
>>> case. How did Canada get around that?
>>>
>>> Why do you think that religious fundamentalists dominate conservative
>>> parties? I don't think that they do in the US, though i do know that is
>>> a
>>> popular thought.
>>>
>>> Just curious here, I haven't heard too much about Harper, but do you
>>> Chretien to him?
>>>
>>> FACE
>>
>>harpo is a bush ass-kisser and will be ousted precisely because of his own
>>hypocrisies in the next election...
>
>>what do you mean by, "do you chretien to
>>him"....?... that makes absolutely no sense...
>
> I left the word "prefer" out. The sentence was to be "do you prefer
> Chretien to Harper". I believe that Jean Chretien was immediately prior
> to
> Harper and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 2003.

actually... Paul Martin was pm just prior to harpo... and i did like him...
he was a basic, down-to-earth individual that the neocons smeared with false
allegations of impropriety... even after the gomery report that he initiated
as an independent study exonerated him... people were just too fed up with a
long history of liberals in power... so.. although i felt it unfortunate
that martin got the axe for the shit that chretien had been mostly
responsible for (aside from the gomery report), i also understand that there
is a benefit to ousting a party out of leadership for simply having been in
the role of leadership for too long... it's a healthy thing for politics
that politicians are scared of public opinion... harpo knows this intimately
being the leader of a minority government... and even though he's tried to
inject his own idiotological take on governance... he quickly gets spanked
back into place by just having the public opinion polls swing away...

if such were the same in the states, there would be no way that bush could
have pulled half the crap he has... and he certainly would not have started
an illegal war with a nation that did not attack the u.s. nor would he have
shown such disrespect for the constituttion...

>>
>>canada does have a governor general... http://www.gg.ca/...
>
> Micha?lle Jean. Interesting. The function of a governor general is to
> oversee a colony -- british in this instance. Does he really have any
> power
> now? The UK is a theocracy with an established church -- the CoE, does
> that
> also apply in Canada? I knew someone in the maritimes that was always
> referring to Crown land, the Crown Prosecutor, etc. -- so do you have the
> whole ball of wax? Lords Spiritual in your parliament and all that?
>
>>
>>canada is a country that has a history of being supportive of individual
>>rights and freedoms... and in some ways, moreso than the u.s.
>>we have passed legislation in support of gay marriage and we have
>>legislation which supports a woman's right to choose... and we'd probably
>>have ended the insane prohibition against marijuana by now were it not for
>>bush's interference... because, unlike the neocon attitude, we would
>>rather
>>tax the shit out of it and make money off it rather than feed the criminal
>>underground with wads of profit...
>>
>>canada has a history of recognizing that we are all ONE nation and that
>>together we stand and divided we fall...
>
> A house divided against itself can not stand? I've heard that -- it was a
> republican wot said it..........

i agree totally with that sentiment... i believe that was lincoln who said
that...

i'm a big supporter of having at least three parties because it always
forces the two underdogs to collaborate... and in cases like ours where we
have a minority government, it forces all three opposing parties to make
concessions... although, i will acknowledge that countries such as italy can
become just as deadlocked by having too many parties... i believe they have
12.... clearly, that is just too unwieldy...

>>
>>canada is a nation which respects individuality above all... no matter
>>what
>>culture or color of skin... and although we have a long way to go before
>>seeing women getting equity in employment... we are serious as citizens
>>about working towards it... we do provide universal health care... and i'm
>>not interested in comparing the best of what we have with what is clearly
>>a
>>superior product by some of the best medical institutions in the states...
>>but we provide health care to EVERYONE... without exception and at a FAR
>>lower cost than you do... and we would now have universal day care to help
>>struggling families if harpo had not pissed away that money toward buying
>>votes...
>
> Reckon the universal daycare would be as big of a success as your NHS?
>
> There are some real horror stories about that..........
>
> In the US, no one is denied healthcare. It's the law.
>
> FACE

i'm not sure i can fully agree with "no one is denied healthcare" because,
as i understand it... many people opt out just because of the costs... and
there was an incident i read about not too long ago where some guy killed
his wife because her medical costs were too much for him to handle... i
could be wrong... but, i sincerely doubt such could ever happen in canada...

i'm certainly not saying that our health care is perfect... i don't believe
perfection is anything other than a goal to work towards... there is always
room for improvement... and i believe that by keeping such in mind,
improvement will always occur... and that it is really the only defence
against apathy and sterility and regression...

>>
>>religious fundamentalists have swung toward supporting conservative
>>political parties primarily because leaders from both groups have
>>supported
>>such an affiliation under what i will describe as initiatives promoted by
>>such religious leaders as jerry fallwel whom understood that it is through
>>politics that he could forward his agenda... there is a religious
>>university
>>in the states that was started up by a "religious" leader... i don't
>>recall
>>offhand what it is called... but, it has become renowned for developing
>>their students' debating skills... and that is a clear testament to me
>>that
>>the primary goal is political change...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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