(Sorry, this is slightly OT, but hopefully helpful.) On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:11:27PM -0800, Caleb Phillips wrote: > The RH package manager has always sucked. If you are running RH, then > yes, it would probably be easier to install from source. The Gentoo and > Ubuntu package manager(s) rock. So. Hrm. Using the package manager is > probably easier on Ubuntu...but installing from source has it's merits too.
You can build Debian/Ubuntu packages from source pretty easily as well, tweaking whatever it is you think you might want to tweak: $ mkdir tmp && cd tmp $ apt-get source whateverpackage $ cd whateverpackage-whateverversion $ vi debian/rules $ debuild In praxis, I've never once had to do this on anything resembling a production system - only when creating new packages. YMMV, I suppose, as always. > In sum: > > 1. Install Ruby. > $ sudo apt-get install ruby > 2. Install RubyGems > $ sudo apt-cache search gems > $ sudo apt-get install WhateverYouFound First and foremost, you don't need to run apt-cache search as root, ever. Unfortunately, there is no RubyGems package in Debian yet - for good reason. Gems conflict pretty dramatically with any distribution-based package manager. In unstable, there's a decent native 'rails' package, based on the gems, but I always just install RubyGems from source, ie.: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsOnUbuntuDebianTestingAndUnstable AFAICT, this is all equally true for Ubuntu. HTH, -- Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CEO, Producer the basement productions http://www.thebasement.org
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