From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-06-14T10:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem installing rubygems

On Monday 13 June 2005 04:40 pm, Andreas Habel wrote:
> After downloading the latest sources of ruby-gems 8.10 and
>
>  > ruby setup.rb all
>
> I ran into errors in post_install.rb. I`ve located the position in code
> and reproduced the error in irb:
> Any ideas ?
> btw. running SuSE 9.3

I don't think I've seen this issue in SuSE before.  This is a common problem 
in system that don't bundle zlib with the base ruby installation (or building 
from source on systems that don't have the zipping libraries).

You can test this by typing "require 'zlib'" in irb.

See also http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/15#page66 (although the entry 
is a bit brief).

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