From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-01-29T09:52:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with fresh install of RubyGems on Ubuntu Linux: No such file to load -- rubygems/builder (LoadError)

Hi,

From: "Eric Schwartz" <emschwar@pobox.com>
>
> Thursday <nospam@nospam.nospam.nospam.nospam.org> writes:
> > You did not have zlibc installed at the time you compiled/installed
> > ruby. This caused ruby to not have zlibc which is required in order to
> > install rubygems.
> >
> > Solution:
> >
> > 1. install zlibc (apt-get install zlibc)
> > 2. recompile/reinstall ruby (zlibc must be installed when you do this)
> > 3. install rubygems
> 
> I had the same problem.  I followed your instructions, and still get
> the same error ("No such file to load -- rubygems/builder") after
> running 'ruby setup.rb all' as root.

I had the same problem (even after installing zlibc)...
With some help on #ruby-lang, it turned out I also needed 
to install zlib1g and/or zlib1g-dev.  I installed both,
(in addition to zlibc), rebuilt ruby, and the rubygems
install has now succeeded.


HTH,

Bill