Turning a Ruby on Rails Ubuntu command into a Redhat command

Mangalaiii · 12-02-2008, 11:35 AM

Hi,

I'm the noobiest noob you'll find on here. I'm having trouble getting ruby on rails to work with mysql on redhat. So on their forum I asked how to install the latest "sqlite" database package on linux. They told me to run:

Quote:

sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby1.8-dev libsqlite3-dev

Now, I don't think I need "sudo" because I am the root user on my database, and I don't think I can use "apt-get" because I'm using redhat, not ubuntu.

1) Is there a way of running the above command on redhat? (A redhat command for installing things?)

2) How can I be sure I'm using redhat and not some other OS?

Would majorly appreciate this. Thanks, David

tospo · 12-02-2008, 03:37 PM

ok, where do we start....

First, here is a command that should show you which OS you are using:

Code:

less /proc/version

On RedHat you use yum instead of apt-get. For example: to list packages that contain sqlite in the name do this:

Code:

yum list '*sqlite*'

when I do this I get this list (being on a i386 system):
Installed Packages
python-sqlite.i386 1.1.7-1.2.1 installed
sqlite.i386 3.3.6-2 installed
sqlite-devel.i386 3.3.6-2 installed
Available Packages
...

I can now install with this command:

Code:

sudo yum install sqlite.i386 sqlite-devel.i386

You do need to be the root user for your sytem for this and that has nothing to do with the root for your database.

Ruby should be installed on your system already but you can check with yum whether you can install any update packages (in that case use yum update).

You will also want to install the sqlite ruby gem:

Code:

gem install sqlite-ruby

Of course you need rubygems for that first (see here)

and then you can install rails:

Code:

gem install rails

GOOD LUCK!!!