From: Navjeet Chabbewal <navjeetc@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T05:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: compile of Ruby fails on Ubuntu

shawn bright wrote:
> there are some libs that ubuntu requires. something about yaml and 
> something
> else, dont remember.
> i used this guide
> http://weblog.freeopinion.org/articles/2005/11/17/setting-up-ruby-in-ubuntu
> 
> and it seemed to work.
> 

That did not help.

> any reason you are not using apt? i actually got ruby on dapper by
> apt-get install ruby1.8
> then made a symlink to /usr/bin/ruby
> 
> hope this helps

Well I did that finally which took care of ruby but now I have similar 
9if not same) problem when running ruby setup.rb to build rubygems as 
shown below:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: undefined symbol: 
rb_Digest_MD5_Init - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so 
(LoadError)
        from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in 
`require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:10
        from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in 
`require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb:7
        from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in 
`require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:93:in 
`manage_gems'
        from /home/navjeet/rubygems-0.9.0/./post-install.rb:70:in 
`install_sources'
        from /home/navjeet/rubygems-0.9.0/./post-install.rb:81:in 
`try_run_hook'
        from setup.rb:577:in `run_hook'
        from setup.rb:1315:in `exec_task_traverse'
        from setup.rb:1168:in `exec_install'
        from setup.rb:887:in `exec_install'
        from setup.rb:705:in `invoke'
        from setup.rb:674:in `invoke'


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