From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T23:27:34+09:00
Subject: Re: rbconfig (LoadError)

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:00:08PM +0900, chris wrote:
> > Yes, but make sure you have "ruby1.8-dev" (note the -dev) and "libruby1.8"
> > installed.
> >
> > On my system:
> >
> > $ dpkg-query -S /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/rbconfig.rb
> > libruby1.8: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/rbconfig.rb
> >
> > You probably also want packages "ruby1.8-examples", "irb1.8", "rdoc1.8" and
> > "ri1.8"
> >
> > Brian.
> 
> This is what is on my system at the moment.
> ----------
> chris@chris-laptop:/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux$ ls
> config.h    dl.h   intern.h   node.h   ruby.h     st.h
> defines.h   dln.h  missing.h  regex.h  rubyio.h   util.h
> dlconfig.h  env.h  mysql.so   re.h     rubysig.h  version.h
> chris@chris-laptop:/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux$ dpkg-query -S /usr/
> lib/ruby/i486-linux/rbconfig.rb
> dpkg: /usr/lib/ruby/i486-linux/rbconfig.rb not found.

Do you have "libruby1.8" installed?

If dpkg thinks you have, then try uninstalling and reinstalling it.

B.