From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-04-12T17:55:26+09:00
Subject: Re: fxruby gem install problem

Thanks, Phillip. Please see comments below...
Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
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> Tom Cloyd wrote:
> | I'm trying to install the most recent fxruby gem - I don't understand
> | what's happening:
> |
> | sudo gem install fxruby-1.6.14.gem ERROR:  While executing gem ...
> | (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
> |    Could not find fxruby-1.6.14.gem (> 0) in any repository
> |
> | That makes no
> | sense to me. I got that version number from output of the 'gem list -r
> | -d' command, to wit:
>
> My workaround:
>
> http://gems.rubyforge.org/ contains a link to the gems themselves, and
> you can simply download them from there.
>
> 'gem install /download/location/thegem-1.1.1.gem' will install them.
Please see note [1] below.
>
> You might have to fetch the dependencies yourself, though.
And how would I know what those are?
>
> Be careful to grab the gem appropriate for your OS. ;)
>
> N.B.: I just downloaded the BlueCloth gem via 'gem install BlueCloth'.
>
> It is possible the mirror you hit is currently synching its repository
> against RubyForge, or otherwise not able to server files.
>
> - --
> Phillip Gawlowski
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[1] I'm feeling rather defeated here. Four attempts - same result in all 
cases. I'm trying everything I can think of, to no avail. I'm running on 
Kubuntu Linux 7.10 (most current version). Sorry for the length of this 
- didn't want to leave out anything important:

ATTEMPT TO INSTALL FROM REMOTE LOCATION:

[a] $ sudo gem install 'http://rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem'
[sudo] password for tom:
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
    Could not find http://rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem 
(> 0) in any repository

[b] $ sudo gem install 'rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem'
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
    Could not find rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem (> 0) in 
any repository

[c] $ sudo gem install 
'/download/rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem'
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
    Could not find 
/download/rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem (> 0) in any 
repository
tom@tomcloyd-desktop:/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems$

ATTEMPT TO INSTALL FROM LOCAL DOWNLOAD:
$ sudo gem install '/home/tom/Desktop/fxruby-1.6.14.gem'
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    Error instaling /home/tom/Desktop/fxruby-1.6.14.gem:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby extconf.rb install /home/tom/Desktop/fxruby-1.6.14.gem
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
        --with-fox-dir
        --without-fox-dir
        --with-fox-include
        --without-fox-include=${fox-dir}/include
        --with-fox-lib
        --without-fox-lib=${fox-dir}/lib
        --with-fxscintilla-dir
        --without-fxscintilla-dir
        --with-fxscintilla-include
        --without-fxscintilla-include=${fxscintilla-dir}/include
        --with-fxscintilla-lib
        --without-fxscintilla-lib=${fxscintilla-dir}/lib
extconf.rb:31:in `find_installed_fox_version': couldn't find FOX header 
files (RuntimeError)
        from extconf.rb:183

COMMENT: "Fox header files" - Sorry, but I'm not a C programmer, or 
whatever. "header files" means almost nothing to me, and I don't know 
how to respond to this. The "Check the mkmf.log file for more details" 
reference is obscure - where IS that file? I looked several places for 
it, and have yet to find it.

Any an all help offered will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

t.


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