[BioRuby] Installing Ruby 1.9 on CentOS 5.4

[Raoul Bonnal]

Hi Peter, CentOS 5.4 seems to be very old the lates is 5.7 and I would say
it has very old packages. 1 Day ago I installed sqlite3 and the default
version in 5.7 was too old as well, it's odd but I don't think CentOS is the
right distro for these stuffs.

This is what I did to update sqlite
"
I had an old sqlite package installed on my CentOS box and sqlite3-ruby
wouldnt install without atleast sqlite 3.6.16

So for installing from source

wget http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-autoconf-3070500.tar.gz
tar xvzf sqlite-autoconf-3070500.tar.gz
cd sqlite-autoconf-3070500
./configure
make
sudo make install

*Modifica del percorso di ricerca delle librerie:
- create  file /etc/ld.conf.d/aaa.conf
- add row: /usr/local/lib
- ldconf (per ricaricare i percorsi di ricerca delle librerie)

Now you also need to install the sqlite-devel packages, that is a yum
install so

sudo yum install sqlite-devel

To install the gem

sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby

Probably the best thing to do is to help Peter in setting up a VM with a pre
installed Ruby environment, what about using CloudBioLinux as base distro
for testing ?


On 04/11/11 17.34, "Peter Cock" <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Francesco Strozzi
> <francesco.strozzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Try to install libyaml from source, here it seems they have faced the same
>> problem:
>> http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2011/10/31/install-ruby-193-with-liby
>> aml-on-centos/
>> Cheers,
>> Francesco
> 
> That didn't seem to work,
> 
> $ sudo yum erase libyaml-devel
> $ sudo yum erase libyaml
> 
> then:
> 
> $ cd ~/Downloads
> $ wget http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
> $ tar -xzvf yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
> $ cd yaml-0.1.4
> $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME
> $ make
> $ make check
> $ make install
> 
> Then back to reinstall Ruby as before.
> 
> Maybe there is a problem in the configure script, or I need
> to tell it to look for libyaml under $HOME.
> 
> Peter
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