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David West
Asked: 2017-04-27 07:44:46 +0800 CST

Install Specific Version of Ruby with `apt-get install ruby-full ruby-dev` [duplicate]

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When I execute apt-get install ruby-full ruby-dev I am getting ruby 2.3. I want ruby 1.9.3.

How do I get it to install ruby 1.9.3?

I'm using Ubuntu 16.0.4 Xenial.

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  1. Best Answer

    You didn't mentioned which version of Ubuntu you are using, anyway based on the version of ruby you are getting: 2.3 I guess you are running xenial or something newer that of that.

    If you search for the package you are looking for at Ubuntu Packages, you will see that your desired version 1.9.3 only exist in trusty; so you simply can't install or downgrade it from 2.3 to 1.9.3 because it does not exist in any of your running Ubuntu repositories.

    So what you can do is installing it from a third party PPA, the closest thing to your desired version which I found is Brightbox Ruby PPA, they have compiled 1.9.1 for all available Ubuntu versions from lucid to yakkety; They have a source package for zesty but they didn't compile it yet.

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