From: Tom Cloyd Date: 2008-08-05T00:02:03+09:00 Subject: Re: sqlite3-ruby gem install problem Niklas Baumstark wrote: > Hello, > > Tom Cloyd wrote: >> I love secret knowledge, but only when I'm in on the secret. I simply >> cannot imagine how I might have know this in advance. > > hm, a missing header file can mostly be compensated by installing the sources/header files of the underlying library. this seems kind of logical to me. and those header packages are normally called "libXXX-dev" on debian. so this isn't really a secret. just do a "apt-cache search libsqlite | grep dev" and install the resulting packages. > > Greetings, > Niklas Niklas, I would only ask you to consider that there are people out there struggling with ruby - to get some rather mundane things done (like translate HTML to Textile) - who come from very far away, conceptually. We find minutes in the evening, and sometimes hours on weekends, to do our struggling. We do NOT know what header files are (could that be because we're not C programmers? Maybe. I'm just guessing, though.) Many things are a mystery to us. I'd love to take a year off and get really educated in things Ruby-related, but that's not going to happen. I'm glad - very glad - that there are forums to which we can bring our simple questions, else we'd mostly just die in the midst of our perennial ignorance. So, I'm glad that what's a problem for me probably isn't for most other people here on in the Ruby community. And I do know that every month a learn a little more, but it comes slowly. I'm not in any way offended by anything you said, or by the fact that my question might have seemed bafflingly simple. I'm just wanting to explain things a bit. I'm an expert in a very different field, and I know that THERE, it also is easy to forget how little others know who pass through my world only occasionally. For what it's worth, in well over a decade of being professionally involved in my field, and avocationally involved in yours, I never once met any who comes close to my level of knowledge of matters relating to computer and programming. I'm sad about that, but it's true. Here I'm pretty dumb, true, but not in the rest of the world. (All of which is not much help to me when I get stuck.) But don't worry. I'll likely give you and others occasion to practice patience again, and possibly soon! t. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC - Private practice Psychotherapist Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226 << tc@tomcloyd.com >> (email) << TomCloyd.com >> (website & psychotherapy weblog) << sleightmind.wordpress.com >> (mental health issues weblog) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~