CentOS - Mar 2011 - [Fwd: Re: Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?]

On Fri, March 4, 2011 14:12, aurfalien at gmail.com
wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
>> --On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:11 AM -0500 Digimer
>> <linux at alteeve.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in
>>> CentOS 6 when it is released?
>>
>> A new Ruby
>
> +1
I solved this problem on my 5.5 servers in the following manner:

login: not_as_root_user
.  .  .
$ # Add rpmforge repos to yum per:
$ # http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge
$ sudo yum install checkinstall
$ wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.gz
$ # to get latest or most desired source change version as required
$ tar -xzf ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.gz
$ # expand source archives in /tmp
$ cd ruby-1.8.7-p334
$ # change to source directory
$ ./configure
$ # configure makefile for this host
$ make
$ # build the Ruby VM
$ checkinstall
$ # package ruby VM and suppport files as an RPM package
$ sudo yum localinstall \
    /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ruby-1.8.7-p334-1.i386.rpm \
    --nogpgcheck
$ # install the rpm package from the checkinstall location



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Hamilton, Ontario             fax: +1 905 561 0757
Canada  L8E 3C3