From: Martin DeMello Date: 2008-07-19T07:46:25+09:00 Subject: Re: compile from source - how difficult? On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote: > On a fresh install of Kubuntu Linux (ver. 8.04.01), I'm not having good day > trying to get ruby and rubygems back and functional. I got webby installed under Ubuntu 8.04 without having to compile anything from source. I did face some other issues, though - see http://markmail.org/message/apqjib2ftfr5dukk Since your immediate problem appears to be pthreads-related, see if you have the following installed: libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev martin