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How to install ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04

July 7, 2011May 13, 2013Ryan3 Commentsbash, Debian, LTS, ruby, Ubuuntu

The current LTS version of Ubuntu is 10.04 and the most current version of ruby it ships with is 1.9.1. Unfurtunately 1.9.1 wasn’t that great of a release and anyone using the 1.9 branch really should use the stable 1.9.2.

After doing a bit of researching I found some information on how the best approach to get ruby installed is. Downloading the source, compiling it and registering the installed version with the package manager.

The following little bash script takes care of installing ruby 1.9.2 on a ubuntu or debian based system (or any other version if you change the $Version variable in the script). The script just consolidates information found online and wraps it up into a nice bashscript

#!/bin/bash
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE:  install_ruby_1.9.sh
# 
#         USAGE:  ./install_ruby_1.9.sh 
# 
#        AUTHOR: Ryan Schulze (rs), ryan@dopefish.de
#       CREATED: 07/07/2011 11:59:37 AM CDT
#===============================================================================

Version="1.9.2-p180"
GZFile="ruby-${Version}.tar.gz"
Download="http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/${GZFile}"

if [[ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]]
then
	echo "You need root permission to execute this script"
	exit
fi

apt-get -q update
apt-get -qy upgrade
apt-get install -qy build-essential wget zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev autoconf

cd /usr/local/src/
test -e ${GZFile} || wget ${Download}
tar -xzf ${GZFile}
cd ruby-${Version}

autoconf
./configure --with-ruby-version=${Version} --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=${Version} 
make
make install

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/gems/${Version}/bin

update-alternatives \
	--install /usr/bin/ruby ruby /usr/bin/ruby${Version} $(echo ${Version//./}|cut -d- -f1) \
	--slave   /usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz ruby.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ruby${Version}.1 \
	--slave   /usr/lib/ruby/gems/bin        gem-bin   /usr/lib/ruby/gems/${Version}/bin \
	--slave   /usr/bin/erb  erb  /usr/bin/erb${Version} \
	--slave   /usr/bin/irb  irb  /usr/bin/irb${Version} \
	--slave   /usr/bin/rdoc rdoc /usr/bin/rdoc${Version} \
	--slave   /usr/bin/ri   ri   /usr/bin/ri${Version} \
	--slave   /usr/bin/gem  gem  /usr/bin/gem${Version} \

update-alternatives --config ruby
update-alternatives --display gem &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;&amp; update-alternatives --remove-all gem

echo "[+] Done installing"
ruby -v

#!/bin/bash

#===============================================================================

# FILE: install_ruby_1.9.sh

# USAGE: ./install_ruby_1.9.sh

# AUTHOR: Ryan Schulze (rs), ryan@dopefish.de

# CREATED: 07/07/2011 11:59:37 AM CDT

#===============================================================================

Version="1.9.2-p180"

GZFile="ruby-${Version}.tar.gz"

Download="http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/${GZFile}"

if [[ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]]

then

echo "You need root permission to execute this script"

exit

apt-get -q update

apt-get -qy upgrade

apt-get install -qy build-essential wget zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev autoconf

cd /usr/local/src/

test -e ${GZFile} || wget ${Download}

tar -xzf ${GZFile}

cd ruby-${Version}

autoconf

./configure --with-ruby-version=${Version} --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=${Version}

make

make install

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/gems/${Version}/bin

update-alternatives \

--install /usr/bin/ruby ruby /usr/bin/ruby${Version} $(echo ${Version//./}|cut -d- -f1) \

--slave /usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz ruby.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ruby${Version}.1 \

--slave /usr/lib/ruby/gems/bin gem-bin /usr/lib/ruby/gems/${Version}/bin \

--slave /usr/bin/erb erb /usr/bin/erb${Version} \

--slave /usr/bin/irb irb /usr/bin/irb${Version} \

--slave /usr/bin/rdoc rdoc /usr/bin/rdoc${Version} \

--slave /usr/bin/ri ri /usr/bin/ri${Version} \

--slave /usr/bin/gem gem /usr/bin/gem${Version} \

update-alternatives --config ruby

update-alternatives --display gem >/dev/null 2>&1 && update-alternatives --remove-all gem

echo "[+] Done installing"

ruby -v

Using iFolder as an open source Dropbox alternative

June 25, 2011May 13, 2013Ryan8 CommentsDropbox, files, iFolder, Internet Stuff, sync

I’ve had a few posting here in my blog over the years about trying to keep data synced over various computers. Nowadays it has gotten easier since it seems everyone is chruning out their own online storage. Classics like Dropbox or SugarSync, and then we have the big companies Google, Microsoft and Ubuntu trying their luck. Basically they all provide you with 2-5Gb free storage, and more space and features for more money. But they all have one downside, whether encrypted or not, you are leaving your own files to the mercy of an external company. There is not really any voodoo in the whole system, basically you just have some space online, a bit of encryption, and some way to ensure that all clients of a user are synced, nonetheless building your own service can be a hassle as I have found out.

Currently I’m using SVN as a workaround. I just sometimes forget to commit, which leads to me having old data and no access to updated files. Instead of starting from scratch and build strange stuff with rsync I had a look if there were any open source solutions out there. And I was pleased to find a few. Unfortunately they are almost all in the “I have an idea and a few mockups” stage, maybe even some beta version that does something, but nothing really “production” level. Another downside was that most of them either supported Linux or Windows, but often not both.

One open source solution I stumbled across is iFolder, seasoned software supported by Novell, with clients for Windows, Linux and Mac. And if all else fails you can use the web interface to access your files. Admin and User web interface are both easy to use. I don’t remember how I stumbled across it, but I do know that it’s not one of the main products you see named when searching for alternatives to Dropbox.

If you have SuSE as an OS, then installing the software is immensely simplified due to SuSE belonging to Novell, just follow the SuSE instructions on the website. I prefer debian based installations and found Ubuntu instructions at help.ubuntu.com that were written mainly for Ubuntu, but should work with any debian deviate.

I’m not going to repeat anything from the installation instructions, they already did a fine job of documenting everything. One thing is important however: the Client 3.8.0.0 just plain doesn’t work. unfortunately it is the one linked from the website. Go to the sourceforge repository, and download the newer 3.8.03 client. That one works like a charm.

How to get Teamspeak 3 running on a current Linux

May 24, 2011May 13, 2013Ryan1 CommentDebian, linux, teamspeak 3, ubuntu

Teamspeak is know for lagging a bit behind with development.

The last few days I have been upgrading my servers to current distributions, today the Voice servers were on the list to get Debian 6 / Ubuntu 11.04. And again I ran into problems with Teamspeak, turns out they won’t work with libmysqlclient 16 libraries and require the good old 15 version (which isn’t available out-of-the-box in the latest Debian and Ubuntu release).

So anybody running into the same problem (do a ldd libts3db_mysql.so to check), can hop on over to http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libmysqlclient15off and download the package for your architecture and install it with dpkg -i

What plugins is that website running?

May 18, 2011September 27, 2014Ryancms-explorer, drupal, nikito, security, wordpress

While having a look at nikito yesterday I stumbled accross cms-explorer. It’s an interesting little program that checks the themes/modules/plugins installed in common CMS systems (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla! and Mambo), with automatic exploration for Drupal and WordPress. It also has some nice bonus features like providing a list of known issues for plugins found by accessing the OSVDB.org database.

Example output:

Plugin Installed:		wp-content/plugins/hello.php
	URL			http://www.dopefish.de/wp-content/plugins/hello.php
	SVN			http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-content/plugins/hello.phptrunk/
	http://osvdb.org/22654	WordPress wp-content/plugins/hello.php Direct Request Path Disclosure
	http://osvdb.org/62684	WordPress wp-content/plugins/hello.php add_action() Function Path Disclosure
Plugin Installed:		wp-content/plugins/devformatter/
	URL			http://www.dopefish.de/wp-content/plugins/devformatter/
	SVN			http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-content/plugins/devformatter/trunk/

Plugin Installed: wp-content/plugins/hello.php

URL http://www.dopefish.de/wp-content/plugins/hello.php

SVN http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-content/plugins/hello.phptrunk/

http://osvdb.org/22654 WordPress wp-content/plugins/hello.php Direct Request Path Disclosure

http://osvdb.org/62684 WordPress wp-content/plugins/hello.php add_action() Function Path Disclosure

Plugin Installed: wp-content/plugins/devformatter/

URL http://www.dopefish.de/wp-content/plugins/devformatter/

SVN http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-content/plugins/devformatter/trunk/

Running it against my own webspace revealed a possible SQL injection I was unaware of. *) Fixed that, will probably replace that plugin completely this week, anything that has stuff so obviously bad in it is generally not all too sane.

*) I normally look at plugins before I install them, must have missed this one. @ PHP programmers: anyone who passes on the content of a $_REQUEST directly to a SQL query without any sanity checking deserves to be flogged with his own code.

Disemvoweling

May 2, 2011May 13, 2013Ryancss, disemvoweling, javascript

Talk about weird words … ok, according to Wikipedia disemvoweling is the term for replacing or removing vowels from words. Commonly used as a tool for moderating. I’m pretty sure everyone has run across certain disemvoweled words on the internet like f*ck or sh*t. Anyway I went and made a pure html/javascript page that does just that, removes any vowels from an inputted text. The usefullness can certainly be argued, it was more for me to brush up on my javascript and css skills.

http://www.dopefish.de/projects/disemvoweling/