From: Scott Hodson <shodson@...>
Date: 2006-09-01T06:25:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to gem install rdoc.  Can somebody suggest someth

Ross Bamford wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 10:21 +0900, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>> I'm running on Ubuntu, and have gems kindof apparently installed, and yet I
>> cannot install rdoc:
> 
> I assume you're using your distribution's ruby package, in which case
> you may well need to install the appropriate ruby-rdoc package. For
> example on Fedora you have to install ruby-rdoc-1.8.4-3.2.i386.rpm. I
> don't know what it'd be for Ubuntu.
> 
> Alternatively, build yourself a full install from source:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
> 
> but don't forget to 'make install-doc' after you 'make install' to get
> ri working.

I'm having the same problem on Ubuntu 6.06.  I never "make" anything, I 
just got the ruby1.8 package via apt-get.  I don't see any separate rdoc 
packages.  Any other Ubuntu users figure this out?

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