Debian – Ryan Schulze

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

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

XEN and Kernel update

April 30, 2010April 30, 2010Ryanbackport, Debian, kernel, lenny, testing, xen

Server is up and running again. This morning I finished the xen (3.4) and kernel (2.6.32) updates I prepared yesterday evening. The only pitfall I stumbled across, was that the kernel in the debian repository (2.6.26-xen) seemingly wasn’t compatible with the latest xen in the debian repository (system would hang while booting, I guess that’s what I get for using “testing”).

Anyway, anyone using “lenny” or “testing” and wanting to update xen; here are a few tips to make the transition a breeze:

The debian wiki is full of useful information regarding xen
backports.org has a current xen kernel (linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.4-xen-amd64) that works fine with xen 3.4, just follow the instructions on backports.org on how to add it to apt.
I had to deactivate the “vfb” (VNC console) setting in the domU config files to get my guests to boot, browsing the Internet I saw people having the same problem with the “dhcp” setting.
If you are planning on updating the guests kernels too (advised), remember to change the “kernel” and “ramdisk” settings in the domU config files accordingly

With these few points in mind, the update is a breeze.

Moving Exim/Spamassassin/Cyrus -> Debian config

December 28, 2008Ryancyrus, Debian, exim, imap, linux, mail, spam, spamassassin

I’ve been putting off moving my mail system to the new server for a few weeks now since the old system was configured from scratch using the original config files and not the debian style config files. The differences in the Exim config are extreme. Debian splits the one large config file into lots of smaller files. This is great if: you never worked with exim before, you aren’t trying to migrate an existing configuration that is in one large file, and you don’t have all kinds of custom stuff like imap, spamassassin, greylisting mixed in. Yeah, not me. Even though I find the “one large file” a whole lot faster and easier to read, the Debian way has one big advantage: it is way easier for external scripts and packages to drop their custom config into exim. They just add a file to the right directory and thats it.

So I decided to go for it and merge my custom stuff into the Debain config. Greylisting worked out-of-the-box, spamassassin needed some minor tweaks, exim was (more or less) easy. The p.i.t.a. with exim is when you know exactly what is missing and where it would be configured, but because of “smart debian scripts” you have to find some config in an unrelated script and put the value there so it gets put in the right placeholder.

Here is a little summary in case I ever do this again and need to see if I forgot something:
– cyrus: copy /var/spool/cyrus/mail/ , /var/lib/cyrus/user/ , use cyradm to add the user.blargh account and /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -rf user (don’t forget the sieve filters)
– getmail: nothing special here, just copy config and add cronjob
– spamassassin: alter exim acl to set noscan for auth’d connections and have spamassassin scan everything not “noscan” (because per default local mail isn’t scanned, that includes everything we pick up via getmail)
– exim: check update-exim4.conf.conf for stupid entries, remember to turn on TLS (imap can use the same certificates), since we are using sasl for imap, have smtp auth use the same database (plain_saslauthd_server), turn on TLS by creating a file conf.d/main/00_exim4-config_localmacros with “MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true” in it

Now that I’m done I found a pretty detailed German website with steps to set up such a system E-Mail-Server mit Debian, Exim und Cyrus. I did the exim router/transports a bit differently to have a bit more control over what goes where when. Still, defiantly worth reading if you are thinking about building such a system.

MSI Wind U100

October 11, 2008Ryan1 CommentDebian, Laptop, linux, MSI, Windows

I bought myself a laptop this week. To be more precise I bought a MSI Wind U100 “Luxury” version in white with 2GB Ram. It arrived today, and I have been spending most of the afternoon setting up Windows. I must say, I’m positively surprised about how good it works and the default setup. It came with 3 partitions, the first (about 3GB) is a rescue system, the second (about 50GB) has windows installed, and the rest (100GB) was an empty partition. I reduced the last partition to 50GB and will be installing Linux in the other half later on (Dual-Boot). It seems most of the community is only interested in installing ubuntu on the msi wind, so let’s see how far I get with a “normal” debian install. Not that ubuntu is bad, I use it often enough as a desktop installation, but this laptop isn’t really your standard hardware or usage here. So debian it will be, and minimized/customized to to what I want efficiently and good looking ;-).

Since there are plenty of reviews floating around the ‘net, I’ll spare you all a rant about how cool the notebook is.