Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Installing Ruby onto XUbuntu 14.04 (kept installing source)

Trying to install ROR on an XUbuntu 14.04 VirtualBox vm.  Thought I'd mention one of the problems I ran into.  At first I was trying to install RVM/ROR etc from this page on an xubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-i386 image and every time I got to the part of running this line...

rvm install 2.2.3
...the install would download the source and then have to compile.  After some troubleshooting and reading some forum posts, I found out that the binaries weren't available. I did that by typing...

rvm list remote
...and only 2 JRuby binaries were showing up.  When I typed in...

rvm info
...I then noticed I was in a 32 bit environment and not a 64 bit environment like my other Ubuntu image.  After downloading and installing the 64 bit image (xubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso), I no longer had this issue.


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