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 -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3