I have been watching the baseball wire over the last few weeks, I am continue to grow more and more disgusted as I see the news:
Atlanta Braves Sign: Rafael Furcal 3 Years – $30 million
Philadelphia Phillies Sign: Raul Ibanez 3 Years – $31.5 million
New York Yankees Sign: CC Sabathia’s 7 years – $161 million
Mark Teixeira looking for $200 million contract.
Excuse me while I get my inner geek on.
I had Red Hat system that needed to be upgrade from running Ruby 1.8.5 to Ruby 1.8.6. Unfortunately, Red Hat really lags in releasing RPM’s for many packages, and Ruby is one of the packages.
Now I have drunk the Red Hat RPM Kool-aid. IMHO using RPM’s on your system is the only sane way to manage a Red Hat based system. Compiling from source is ugly and hard to manage in the long run.
I called tech support (google.com) and found an RPM based solution to upgrade, but I ran into a few problems that I could find no solution for through “tech support” I am going to walk you through installing ruby 1.8.6 on a Red Hat system using RPM’s and solving a little issue after you have installed it.
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