From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-04-11T03:23:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Once again I'm wasting my time with CentOS: gem install won't work...

Honestly, when I need a reasonably modern ruby on a redhat/centos
system, I use checkinstall to make a nice little rpm package out of my
own compilation of ruby.  Does it have all of it's red-hat dependency
checks?  No, but that doesn't really bug me.

--Kyle

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Davi Vidal wrote:
>
> > Em Wednesday 09 April 2008, Xeno Campanoli escreveu:
> >
> > > Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> > >
> > > > [root@free rubygems-1.1.0]# vi README
> > > > [root@free rubygems-1.1.0]# ruby setup.rb
> > > > ./lib/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require': no such
> > > > file to load -- rdoc/rdoc (LoadError)
> > > >        from ./lib/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
> > > >        from setup.rb:48
> > > > [root@free rubygems-1.1.0]#
> > > >
> > > > I'm following the README, and it fails as above.  Can someone make a
> > > > suggestion other than "use some Linux distro which is less tirdy"?
> > > >
> > > Never mind, I've got it...
> > >
> > >
> >
> >        Could you share your solution?
> >
> >
> >        Thanks,
> >
>  yum install ruby-rdoc, as the other person also replied.  I hope this
> helps.  Actually though, to get the stuff going I needed required some yum
> installs, some tgz installs, and then some gem installs, and one of the
> items I really wanted, Mysql, I still couldn't get anyway because I am
> restricted to too early a version of Mysql and Ruby.  Sigh.  Anyway, I
> recommend Debian flavored stuff if you want to do development or small scale
> servers with little flavor.  If then the operations guys want to put you on
> some Redhat crap for their good feeliness, let them do the extra work.
>
>  xc
>
>
>
>  --
>  There is more safety in diversity; more danger in great power.
>  There is love in effort to understand; hatred in refusal to.
>
>