openssl and other isses when installing Ruby 2.7.5 about ruby-install HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks so much for the quick reply! That worked!!

I first checked with yum directly:

[ sudo yum install xz gcc automake bison zlib-devel libyaml-devel openssl-devel gdbm-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel libffi-devel ]

and those packages were not installed, then I added them for install in the ansible playbook with:

- name: "Prerequisite: ensure devel pkgs are installed on machine"
  ansible.builtin.yum:
    name: xz,gcc,automake,bison,zlib-devel,libyaml-devel,openssl-devel,gdbm-devel,readline-devel,ncurses-devel,libffi-devel
    state: present

and viola, everything worked! [>>> Successfully installed ruby 2.7.5 into /opt/ruby/2.7.5]

Thanks so much!

Ansible:
- name: Install ruby 2.7.5 if not present.
shell: "cd {{ repo_ruby_dest_bin }} && sudo {{ repo_ruby_dest_bin }}/ruby-install ruby 2.7.5 --install-dir {{ruby_path}}"
register: result
ignore_errors: false
when: is_ruby_present.stat.exists == false

Direct console: sudo /home/developer/ruby_install/bin/ruby-install ruby 2.7.5 --install-dir /opt/ruby/2.7.5

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It appears that ruby-install is not installing the openssl, libreadline, etc, dependencies. Apparently AWS Linux is based on RHEL and uses the yum package manager. Not sure why ruby-install isn't detecting yum and installing the packages via yum. Make sure you have the following packages installed xz gcc automake bison zlib-devel libyaml-devel openssl-devel gdbm-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel libffi-devel.

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