- Make sure you have zlib1 and zlib1-dev debs on your box before boiling from source
- Every Ruby source package have
/ext (source) libraries so you just have to go under /ext/zlib and do the usual make && make installprocedure if RubyGems complained. Don't panic - really!
In parallel I tried the latest jRuby build on my office workstation - and yes, I succeed :) It is relatively fast and stable, non-native gems working out of the box; I was able to create a skeleton Rails and a Merb app without problems.
There is still hope folks!
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It will sound like a rant, but Aimee's install method is a stock Linux install (the configure make make install chant), it would work everywhere, but is considered dirty everywhere (except on Slackware). I'm happy to see Ruby working though :)
Not rant at all! As you pointed out it just worked the usual way, no magic happened :) I think that is cool because that is what we expect from an operating system :)
You imply that this is how things should work, but if that was the case, Linux wouldn't have spawned the miriad of package managers: most people expect a way of installing software and another for uninstalling. What you did effectively nullifies the latter, but I do know that you are aware of this fact :)
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