From: Andreas Habel <mail@...>
Date: 2005-06-16T03:40:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem installing rubygems

Jim Weirich wrote:
  >
> 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).
> 
Thanks for your help. I build ruby from source and zlib-devel wasn`t 
installed because my DVD was only SuSE 9.3 personal ;-(

Now everything works fine!

Andreas