Building libxml2 and libxlst on Ubuntu.

gistfile1.sh

# Preflight
gem install fpm

#
# libxml2
#
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz
cd libxml2-2.8.0

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
mkdir -p /tmp/libxml2 && make install DESTDIR=/tmp/libxml2

# build and install the deb
fpm -s dir -t deb -n libxml28 -v 2.8.0 -C /tmp/libxml2 -p libxml28-VERSION_ARCH.deb usr
sudo dpkg -i libxml28-2.8.0_amd64.deb


#
# libxslt
#
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.28.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libxslt-1.1.28.tar.gz
cd libxslt-1.1.28

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
mkdir -p /tmp/libxslt1 && make install DESTDIR=/tmp/libxslt1

# build and install the deb
fpm -s dir -t deb -n libxslt1 -v 1.2.28 -C /tmp/libxslt1 -p libxslt1-VERSION_ARCH.deb usr
sudo dpkg -i libxslt1-1.2.28_amd64.deb