# get up to date
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# basic development tools
sudo apt-get install emacs git-core subversion build-essential

# ruby stuff
sudo apt-get install ruby rdoc ri libopenssl-ruby ruby1.8-dev irb

# for xml processing
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

# mysql
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev

# for using ODBC on Linux -- SQL Server
sudo apt-get install unixodbc unixodbc-dev tdsodbc freetds-dev libodbc-ruby1.8