From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T03:46:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie installation problem: libraries?

Paul Emmons wrote:
> I have recently installed ruby-1.8.1 on my Mandrake Linux system.

That's what I've got, and installing is always painless, at least when 
starting from source. Did you install from the tarball or from a rpm?

> Everything seems to be working except any programs with "require",
> such as irb requiring "irb".

Is this your error message?

   ruby: No such file to load -- irb (LoadError)

You can do the following to see where ruby is looking for libs:

$ ruby -e 'puts $LOAD_PATH'