That's the only thing I can figure. While sitting on the couch this evening, I put this minimal build script [1] together: https://gist.github.com/bradland/686

That's the only thing I can figure. While sitting on the couch this evening, I put this minimal build script [1] together: https://gist.github.com/bradland/6861980 https://gist.github.com/bradland/6861980 That's 9 lines of shell if you exclude comments, and includes the MD5 check. I've updated these commands a few times as Ruby has advanced, but most of the changes come with my distro updates. For example, the Debian 7 release required an update to most of the libs that Ruby depends on. Otherwise, it's been relatively trouble free. 1: It's not really a build script. It's a listing of the shell commands you'd need to install Ruby manually. I extracted them from my build scripts.