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Installation on Ubuntu 8.10 with gems

Introduction

A installation of chef on Ubuntu 8.10 using gems is the best tested method as it's what most the developers use as well. If you have any problems with these directions please let us know.

Install Ruby and Rubygems

Make sure you have Ruby and Rubygems installed. On Ubuntu:

Installing Rubygems

Install Ruby


Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.1 or 1.9.2 with SSL bindings and development tools to build RubyGems with native extensions is required. You will need to install the appropriate packages for your operating system.

On Debian and Ubuntu

(We need wget as well for the next step)

On Red Hat and CentOS

Enable EPEL repository:

Enable ELFF repository to get Ruby 1.8.6.

(Modify the release to match your local system for EPEL and ELFF)

Install Ruby and development tools:

Install RubyGems from Source


We prefer to install RubyGems from source rather than use the OS-provided version (if any), as it is cross platform, so we know what to expect.

Install RubyGems

Install Chef Gem


Now we'll install the Chef RubyGem. This also installs Chef's dependencies.

Install Chef

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