From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@...>
Date: 2001-09-02T18:48:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20694] Re: install problems..

On Sun, 02 Sep 2001 06:51, Chris Moore wrote:
> When trying out tk exmple I got this:
> tkexample.rb:1:in `require': No such file to load -- tk (LoadError)
>         from tkexample.rb:1
>
> so I looked in /usr/lib/ruby and found that there was indeed no tk.rb or
> tk.so in any of the subdirectories...
>
> Since I had 1.6.4 (?) anyways I deciced to get new source and compile (my
> old source directory didn't have ext/tk either...) and upon reinstallation
> it gave me the same message.  The ext directory and subdirectories compiled
> their .so files and the .rb files are there just they didn't get copied to
> /usr/lib/ruby with make install.
>
> Do I just need to copy the whole ruby/ext directory to /usr/lib/ruby/ ?

You have to install all the Tcl/Tk and extentions stuff in your distribution, 
do a make distclean in the ruby dir. Re- configure and make ...

That worked for me.

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