Section Suggested build environment at Wiki contains an invalid package for Ubuntu 16.04.4.
command:
sudo apt-get install autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm5 libgdbm-dev
result:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libgdbm5
libgdbm5 is for Ubuntu 18.04. If you're using 16.04 you should install libgdbm3.
@A-Boudi Thank you, but I have it installed already. I opened this issue to to warn of an potential error in the Suggested build environment.
I added a notice in the wiki about that. Maybe with that we could close this issue.
libgdbm6 is available for Debian (10), and it's acceptable for ruby-build.
libgdbm5 is available for mint19 and ubuntu 19
libgdbm6 is available for Ubuntu: 20.04
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libgdbm6is available for Ubuntu: 20.04