Grant Hollingworth
11/17/2006 8:23:00 PM
* Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> [2006-11-16 13:33]:
>Lee Benson wrote:
> You'll need to have an unstable distribution in you
>/etc/apt/sources.list. I don't think there is any backport for stable,
>but you can try installing directly with the .debs found on the previous
>page.
The .debs built for testing and unstable depend on a newer version of libc6 than stable has.
Add testing to /etc/apt/sources.list and then run
apt-get build-dep ruby1.8
apt-get source --build ruby1.8
You'll end up with a pile of Ruby .debs that you can install with dpkg -i.