Installing rubygems and libgems-ruby 1.1.1 in Ubuntu

Although this version of rubygems should show up in hardy-backports I’m not sure it will ever be ported to gutsy-backports. So I decided to pull the new version and install it on my Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) systems. I had previously been using 1.0.1 from Debian testing. The steps to install were quite simple. This should work for at least ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 and perhaps other versions as well.

• wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libg/libgems-ruby/rubygems_1.1.1-1_all.deb
• wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libg/libgems-ruby/libgems-ruby1.8_1.1.1-1_all.deb
• sudo dpkg -i libgems-ruby1.8_1.1.1-1_all.deb
• sudo dpkg -i rubygems_1.1.1-1_all.deb