Gem Installation problem on Ubuntu

[Sam Kong]

Hi!

I'm trying to install ruby, gem, rails on my fresh Ubuntu.
I'm not a Linux expert but have experiences with ruby on Windows and
Mac.

I used apt-get install ruby and it installed ruby 1.8.3 which doesn't
work with rails unfortunately.
So I uninstalled it and manually installed ruby 1.8.4 and it worked
fine.
I downloaded rubygems 0.8.11 and ran ruby setup.rb but had errors like
the following.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
'require__': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)

I searched for the solution of that issue and found the following info
at http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3

Debian Linux: Debian does not automatically include all the standard
Ruby libararies in the basic Ruby package. As a result, you may need to
''apt-get'' libyaml-ruby and libzlib-ruby before you can
install rubygems.

So I did apt-get install libyaml-ruby libzlib_ruby and they proceeded
fine.

But I still have the zlib error.
What did I miss?
Additionally, why does Ubuntu install ruby 1.8.3 by default instead of
1.8.4 or 1.8.2?
Whenever I try to get along with linux, such minor things as these get
in the way and keep discouraging me...
(Sorry for whining...)

Any help would be appreciated.

Sam

 

[Sam Kong]

Forgot to mention that it's Ubuntu 5.10.

Sam

 

[Sam Kong]

Hi!

I'm trying to install ruby, gem, rails on my fresh Ubuntu.
I'm not a Linux expert but have experiences with ruby on Windows and
Mac.

I used apt-get install ruby and it installed ruby 1.8.3 which doesn't
work with rails unfortunately.
So I uninstalled it and manually installed ruby 1.8.4 and it worked
fine.
I downloaded rubygems 0.8.11 and ran ruby setup.rb but had errors like
the following.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
'require__': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)

I searched for the solution of that issue and found the following info
at http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3

Debian Linux: Debian does not automatically include all the standard
Ruby libararies in the basic Ruby package. As a result, you may need to
''apt-get'' libyaml-ruby and libzlib-ruby before you can
install rubygems.

So I did apt-get install libyaml-ruby libzlib_ruby and they proceeded
fine.

But I still have the zlib error.
What did I miss?
Additionally, why does Ubuntu install ruby 1.8.3 by default instead of
1.8.4 or 1.8.2?
Whenever I try to get along with linux, such minor things as these get
in the way and keep discouraging me...
(Sorry for whining...)

Any help would be appreciated.

Sam

Never mind.
I solved it.

I reinstalled ruby and it worked.
Probably I had to install libyaml-ruby and libzlib_ruby before I made
ruby.

Sam

 

[Joe Van Dyk]

Hi!

I'm trying to install ruby, gem, rails on my fresh Ubuntu.
I'm not a Linux expert but have experiences with ruby on Windows and
Mac.

I used apt-get install ruby and it installed ruby 1.8.3 which doesn't
work with rails unfortunately.
So I uninstalled it and manually installed ruby 1.8.4 and it worked
fine.
I downloaded rubygems 0.8.11 and ran ruby setup.rb but had errors like
the following.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
'require__': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)

I searched for the solution of that issue and found the following info
at http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3

Debian Linux: Debian does not automatically include all the standard
Ruby libararies in the basic Ruby package. As a result, you may need to
''apt-get'' libyaml-ruby and libzlib-ruby before you can
install rubygems.

So I did apt-get install libyaml-ruby libzlib_ruby and they proceeded
fine.

But I still have the zlib error.
What did I miss?
Additionally, why does Ubuntu install ruby 1.8.3 by default instead of
1.8.4 or 1.8.2?
Whenever I try to get along with linux, such minor things as these get
in the way and keep discouraging me...
(Sorry for whining...)

Any help would be appreciated.

Sam

Complain to the Debian people please. They are refusing to fix this.

Joe