Installing Ruby with RVM on Debian 6 with root access

0) login as root (su or sudo -s)

1) After a Debian fresh install you should install those package:

 

apt-get install autoconf automake autotools-dev build-essential bison bzip2 curl git libreadline5 libsqlite3-0 sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libxml2-dev libmysqlclient-dev libreadline5-dev libruby openssl libssl-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev zlibc vim

 

 

2) Install rvm

bash < <(curl -BL https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

 

3) Add to /etc/profile and /root/.bashrc this script

 

if [ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ] ; then

  . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

elif [ -s "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm" ] ; then

  . "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm"

fi

 

4) If the file /etv/rvmrc doesn't exists create it and add this content

umask g+w

export rvm_path="/usr/local/rvm"

 

5) Install ruby with rvm

rvm install ruby-1.9.2

rvm use default ruby-1.9.2

 

6) Install rubygems

- Downlaod Rubygems from rubyforge.org

  curl http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/75173/rubygems-1.8.6.tgz > rubygems-1.8.6.tgz

- Uncompress it

  tar xzf rubygems-1.8.6.tgz

- Install

  cd rubygems-1.8.6

  ruby setup.rb