Freshness and Newness

Lucid Lynx + wget + proxy

benash — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:49:18 +0000

If you’re runnin’ Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and tryin’ to use wget from behind a proxy, it might not work. (See wget does not use network proxy in some cases.) Try running this command first:

export no_proxy=$(echo $no_proxy | sed 's/,$//')

To permanently fix, add the above line to ~/.bashrc

Install Redmine with sqlite on Ubuntu

benash — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:48:45 +0000

First, install Ruby and Gems from source

sudo gem install rails -v=2.3.5
sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
cd redmine-* # The folder where you've extracted Redmine
echo "production:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/test.db
" > config/database.yml
RAILS_ENV=production rake config/initializers/session_store.rb
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data

# Now run it
ruby script/server webrick -e production

Notes:

You should be able to access Redmine at http://localhost:3000
Login with default user/pass admin/admin.
I found the versions of rails and rack that the specific version of Redmine requires in the Redmine Installation Guide

Install Ruby from source on Ubuntu 10.04

benash — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:00:31 +0000

sudo aptitude -y install build-essential zlib1g zlib1g-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev locate git-core libssl-dev openssl curl checkinstall
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p249.tar.gz
tar xvzf ruby-1.8.7-p249.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.7-p249
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall -y

# Now install RubyGems
wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.6.tgz
tar xvzf rubygems*
cd rubygems*
sudo ruby setup.rb

Notes:

checkinstall turns the source into a Debian package before installing, so that it’s easy to remove later.
Replace ruby-1.8.7-p249 with whatever version you want from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/
This procedure came mostly from Nicholas’ Blog . Thanks, Nicholas.