Installing on CentOS Fedora

This page assumes that you're reasonably capable of installing packages in CentOS/Fedora using Yum and that you've compiled software for linux before.

This page basically covers how to use the upstream sources to build required software. An alternative way based on rebuilding RPM:s is available at RPM installation on Fedora

Installing Prerequisites

You'll need to grab make, gcc-c++ to compile Ruby and some gems. You'll also need to get zlib-devel and openssl-devel for adding support for these libraries into Ruby. Lastly, now is a good time to get ImageMagick as well.

Since all of these command will need to be run as root, either su - to login as root, or use sudo.

su -
yum install make gcc-c++ zlib-devel openssl-devel ImageMagick

Accept and install any dependencies that you're prompted to install for the above packages as well.

Install Ruby

Download the latest version of Ruby 1.8.7 from http://ruby-lang.org. This is p302 as of Sept 16, 2010.

mkdir /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p302.tar.bz2
tar -xvf ruby-1.8.7-p302.tar.bz2

The following steps will do the following, install Ruby, add zlib support, add openssl support, reinstall Ruby.

cd ruby-1.8.7-p302
./configure
make
make install

cd ext/zlib
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install
cd ../openssl
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install
cd ../..
make
make install

You should now have Ruby installed with zlib and openssl support. Run ruby -v to make sure it's running and working.

[root@machine ~]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i686-linux]

Note: Your version string may say 'x86_64' if you're on a 64-bit OS.

Install Rubygems

Next you'll need to install Rubygems. 1.3.7 as of Sept 16, 2010.

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
tar -xvf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.7
ruby setup.rb

You can check if gem has been installed correctly by running gem -v and gem list.

[root@machine ~]$ gem -v
1.3.7

Install MongoDB

For Fedora, the official repositories now contains the mongodb-server package. Thus, for Fedora mongodb is installed by:

sudo yum install mongodb-server