From: Jonathan Smith <jonathan.w.smith@...>
Date: 2003-02-08T09:49:17+09:00
Subject: Tortured by the Dependency Daemons

The instructions for installation state, "In RWiki package for your 
help, druby, ERb and MutexM have been installed on the `lib' directory." 
This was not true in my experience. Therefore, I attempted to install 
all DEPENDENCIES, i.e.,"I did the best that I could.". Afterward...

$ ruby -dv rwiki.rb

Resulted in the following error messages:

ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i686-linux] Exception `NameError' at 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/racc/parser.rb:24 - uninitialized 
constant Object::ParseError 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rd/visitor.rb:78: warning: method 
redefined; discarding old visit_Reference Exception `LoadError' at 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rwiki/rwiki.rb:13 - No such file to 
load -- drb/drb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rwiki/rwiki.rb:13:in 
`require': No such file to load -- drb/drb (LoadError)

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rwiki/rwiki.rb:13
from rwiki.rb:13:in `require'
from rwiki.rb:13


So, I re-installed strscan and also followed the optparse installation 
instructions instead of what is stated in the instructions. Then...

$ ruby -dv rwiki.rb

Resulted in the following error messages:

ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i686-linux] Exception `NameError' at 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/racc/parser.rb:24 - uninitialized 
constant Object::ParseError 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rd/visitor.rb:78: warning: method 
redefined; discarding old visit_Reference Exception `LoadError' at 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rwiki/rwiki.rb:14 - No such file to 
load -- erb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rwiki/rwiki.rb:14:in 
`require': No such file to load -- erb (LoadError)

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rwiki/rwiki.rb:14
from rwiki.rb:13:in `require'
from rwiki.rb:13


I assume I need to install ERb properly. The instructions fail to help. 
I obtained the most current version and installed it. Now...

$ ruby -dv rwiki.rb

Results in the following error message:

ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i686-linux]
Exception `NameError' at 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/racc/parser.rb:24 - uninitialized 
constant Object::ParseError
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rd/visitor.rb:78: warning: method 
redefined; discarding old visit_Reference
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rd/labeled-element.rb:6: warning: 
instance variable @label not initialized (this last message repeats many 
times)


Am I making any progress? <f>

Best regards,

jcwinnie
(valid Email address upon request)