From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2010-12-01T00:09:13+09:00 Subject: Re: installing ncurses and IDE On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Nikita Kuznetsov wrote: > > Well. im Kinda a noob in this: Right now im writing you from a Win Vista > OS. but i could work on an ubuntu distribution. I suggest working on the latter. It's much easier (especially if you can work in a VM, and don't have to switch OSes every time you want to play around a little). > You will first need ncurses on your system before gem can work, what do > you mean by that? I have downloaded the ncurses folder from the berlios > website, where would i have to put those files? (in the description i > found on one website, i was told to copy ncurses.rb and ncurses.so to > the lib folder, but i didnt havea  ncurses.so file... Confusing :) 1.) Install the compiler toolchain. The Software Center should manage this for you (it's in the Programming/Development section). Or, on the commandline: "sudo apt-get install build-essentials". That should get you everything you need. 2.) You need the ncurses development libraries. So, "sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev" should fetch you the most recent version in the Ubuntu repos for you. It's a good idea, if Apt doesn't already, to install the normal ncurses library, too. 3.) "sudo gem install ncurses" will fetch the gem, and build any necessary extension for you. > I had uninstalled Netbeans cos i didnt get it to work , so i dont > remember the message :( Remember: Netbeans' Ruby support ships with JRuby be default. Since it is Java based, you cannot install gems that require compilation. However, Netbeans will happily use any Ruby you point it to, and use only the installed gems for this Ruby version. -- Phillip Gawlowski Though the folk I have met, (Ah, how soon!) they forget When I've moved on to some other place, There may be one or two, When I've played and passed through, Who'll remember my song or my face.