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Installing Ruby on Linode Server

This linode guide provides instructions on how to install ruby on the server. The guide uses ruby 1.8 which is installed alongside other dependencies. How can I alter these commands to setup ruby 1.9.2? The dependencies seem to be linked to each other.

Linode guide's commands:

Install Ruby dependencies

apt-get install wget build-essential ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 rdoc1.8 zlib1g-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8 rubygems1.8 libopenssl-ruby libzlib-ruby libssl-dev libpcre3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Create symbolic links

ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby

ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/bin/irb

Solution

  • RVM is a very popular tool for installing Ruby.