From: bitrocker <rocknroll@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T00:09:58+09:00
Subject: problems installing gems on suse 9.1 (zlib probs?)

first of all: i'm new to the list, i'm new to ruby, i'm not to suse :)
anyway: hi all!

here's my prob (which doesnt seem to be my problem only, but i could'nt
find any answer searching the net high and low)

i installed ruby using yast (ruby 1.8.2), then i tried to install gems
like this:

1. cd /usr/local/src
2. wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
3. tar -zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
(which extracts to rubygems-0.8.10, not rubygems-0.8.11 ???)
4. cd rubygems-0.8.10
5. ruby setup.rb
6. this causes the follwing (zlib?) error:

As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.
Searching $LOAD_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a while)...
...done.
No library stubs found.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
`require__':
No such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)
        from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
`require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:9
        from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
`require__'
        from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
`require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb:1
        from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
`require__'
        from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
`require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:61:in
`manage_gems'
         ... 7 levels...
        from setup.rb:887:in `exec_install'
        from setup.rb:705:in `invoke'
        from setup.rb:674:in `invoke'
        from setup.rb:1352

... everything i try now: ruby setup.rb setup, ruby setup.rb install,
gem install rubygems-update ... everything causes this zlib error. i
installed the latest zlib and zlib-devel package via yast... no change.

my zlib is:

zlib-1.2.1-70.12

ruby is:

ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) i686-linux

i tried searching for other ruby or zlib packages using yast but there
aren't any other :/

anyone?

thanks: lars