From: James Britt Date: 2006-12-17T15:01:35+09:00 Subject: Re: rubygem setup.rb failing Michael Satterwhite wrote: > ... > Either I'm missing something - or my ruby install wasn't as clean as it > looked. I looked at the source, and I thought that all I needed to do > was install the yaml and syck files onto the machine (I'm running > kubuntu) - but that didn't seem to do any good. > I've installed ruby and rubygems on Kubuntu recently. No links handy off the top of my head, but Google for ruby+rails+rubygems+ubuntu. There are few sites that give very nice apt-get instructions to ensure you can correctly compile Ruby and get gems running. The default install on Unbuntu is lacking some things needed by Ruby/Rubygems. (zlib comes to mind, and I had a problem with ssh recently as well.) -- James Britt "Inside every large system there's a small system trying to get out". - Chet Hendrickson