Install Ruby 2.1 with Virtualmin on Debian 7

by frank · September 7, 2016

Install Ruby 2.1

# as root

apt-get update

apt-get install build-essential bison openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev \

libyaml-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev autoconf \

libc6-dev ncurses-dev libaprutil1-dev libffi-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libapr1-dev

cd ~

wget http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.9.tar.gz

tar-xvf ruby-2.1.9.tar.gz

# go to where it was unpacked

cdruby-2.1.9/

./configure

make

maketest

makeinstall

cd~

rm-rf ruby-2.1.9*

ruby -v

# output: ruby 2.1.9p490 (2016-03-30 revision 54437) [x86_64-linux]


Et Voilà!

Troubleshooting

Generating RDoc documentation
Parsing sources...
Killed754/961] lib/rubygems/platform.rb

Workaround

 ./configure --disable-install-doc

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Requirement: Virtualmin versions 3.48 and above

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