[Rails] Re: Fedora Core 2, cPanel and Ruby

[Rodrigo Alvarez Fernández]

On 12/27/05, Sean Schertell <sean at datafly.net> wrote:
>
> Rodrigo Alvarez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have a live server with Fedora Core 2 and cpanel.
> > I want to install Ruby 1.8.2, so i can use rails, but it has some
> > dependencies that need to swith the computer to Fedora 3.
> > It requires a new version of openssl, which breaks dependencies in a LOT
> > of
> > packages.
> > What do you recommend me to do? Update the whole system (how?), use some
> > kind of chroot to install the new version of ruby...?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Rodrigo.
>
> Rodrigo Alvarez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have a live server with Fedora Core 2 and cpanel.
> > I want to install Ruby 1.8.2, so i can use rails, but it has some
> > dependencies that need to swith the computer to Fedora 3.
> > It requires a new version of openssl, which breaks dependencies in a LOT
> > of
> > packages.
> > What do you recommend me to do? Update the whole system (how?), use some
> > kind of chroot to install the new version of ruby...?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Rodrigo.
>
>
> Hi Rodrigo,
>
> You don't need to upgrade to FC3.  You should be able to just compile
> Ruby from source.  It's very easy and should only take you about 20
> minutes.
>
> Here's what I did in a nutshell.  If you need more help, just ask  :-)


Ok, i'll try it today, thanks.

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