Done. Works and happy as ever. :) Pragmatic indeed. :) Thanks. Dave. Hung-Hsien Chang <hubert / cs.nyu.edu> writes: > I am trying to install the Ruby 1.6 version on the machine > I am working on but I am not a root. Our machine > currently does have 1.4 version but it doesn't parse > the class variable. A couple of years back I reorganized my machine so I no longer need root access to install common packages. I created a directory tree (which I own), in my case starting at '/tc'. I then configure the packages with ./configure --prefix=/tc/usr make make install And everything gets installed in my directories, rather than the system ones. Regards Dave