Since Gem has a lot of external dependencies and there are a lot of different linux distributions, many of them providing different libraries, there are usually no pre-built binaries for Gem on linux.

Instead, you are invited to get the latest sources of Gem and build it yourself.

Getting the sources:

• if there is a source-package for a certain release, grab it, extract it, cd into the /src directory, and run
  • ./configure (optionally with some flags) and
  • make
• if there is no source-package available get the latest and greatest sources via CVS, cd into the /src directory, and run
  • aclocal,
  • autoconf,
  • ./configure (optionally with some flags) and
  • make