Ruby Gems in Hoary

Thu Apr 14 12:47:06 UTC 2005

Chris,

Thanks for your help. I solved the problem on a machine at work today 
after finding this link:

http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1957&forum_id=506

And installing the Ubuntu packages. I then installed gems from source 
and grabbed rails which I'm happy to say is working well so far!

Any idea why debian has ruby split up? For convenience, surely having 
one file that includes everything in the official ruby release would be 
better. Oh hang on.... since when has Debian been about convenience 
(doh!) :-P

Regards,

Nicholas

Christoph Sturm wrote:

>looks like you dont have libzlib-ruby1.8 installed
>
>try this:
>sudo apt-get install irb1.8 libbigdecimal-ruby1.8 libdbm-ruby1.8
>libdl-ruby1.8 libdrb-ruby1.8 liberb-ruby1.8 libgdbm-ruby1.8
>libiconv-ruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libpty-ruby1.8
>libracc-runtime-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 librexml-ruby1.8
>libruby1.8 libruby1.8-dbg libsdbm-ruby1.8 libsoap-ruby1.8
>libstrscan-ruby1.8 libsyslog-ruby1.8 libtest-unit-ruby1.8
>libwebrick-ruby1.8 libxmlrpc-ruby1.8 libyaml-ruby1.8 libzlib-ruby1.8
>rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev ruby1.8-elisp ruby1.8-examples
>
>the root cause for this is that debian (and ubuntu) have split ruby
>into lots of small packages.
>
>hth
> chris
>On 4/13/05, Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to make use of Ruby Gems in Hoary. After following the
>>instructions at:
>>
>>http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-12109.html
>>
>>I still can't get the thing to work.
>>
>>I've tried compiling Ruby from source, grabbing the correct packages
>>from Hoary via apt and even the latest nightly snapshot from the ruby site.
>>
>>Each time, ruby compiles and works fine. Yet when I run the:
>>
>>ruby setup.rb
>>
>>command from within the rubygems directory (rubygems is not in Hoary or
>>Debian AFAICT) I get the following output:
>>
>><code>
>>
>>#ruby setup.rb
>>---> bin
>><--- bin
>>---> lib
>>---> lib/rubygems
>><--- lib/rubygems
>><--- lib
>>---> bin
>><--- bin
>>---> lib
>>---> lib/rubygems
>><--- lib/rubygems
>><--- lib
>>rm -f InstalledFiles
>>---> bin
>>mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/
>>install gemwhich /usr/local/bin/
>>install gem /usr/local/bin/
>>install gem_server /usr/local/bin/
>>install generate_yaml_index.rb /usr/local/bin/
>>install update_rubygems /usr/local/bin/
>><--- bin
>>---> lib
>>mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/
>>install ubygems.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/
>>install rubygems.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/
>>install gemconfigure.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/
>>---> lib/rubygems
>>mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install specification.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install builder.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install command.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install config_file.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install custom_require.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install doc_manager.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install format.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install cmd_manager.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install gem_runner.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install installer.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install loadpath_manager.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install old_format.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install open-uri.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install package.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install remote_installer.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install rubygems_version.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install source_index.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install deployment.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install timer.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install user_interaction.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install validator.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install version.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install gem_commands.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>install dependency_list.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>><--- lib/rubygems
>><--- lib
>>
>>As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.
>>Searching $LOAD_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a while)...
>>...done.
>>No library stubs found.
>>
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
>>`require__': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)
>>        from
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'
>>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:9
>>        from
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
>>`require__'
>>        from
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'
>>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb:1
>>        from
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
>>`require__'
>>        from
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'
>>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:61:in
>>`manage_gems'
>>         ... 7 levels...
>>        from setup.rb:887:in `exec_install'
>>        from setup.rb:705:in `invoke'
>>        from setup.rb:674:in `invoke'
>>        from setup.rb:1352
>>root at ntoll:/usr/local/rubygems-0.8.10 #
>>
>></code>
>>
>>Obviously there is a problem concerning zlib. However, I don't know
>>enough about the Ruby source-code or gems to hack it myself, and my
>>suspicion is that its a Hoary / Debian only thing as I know these
>>packages work in other linux distros. Neither do the Hoary ruby packages
>>(yes I checked the zlib-ruby package was installed) work either.
>>
>>I want to use gems to be able to package and download gems from the
>>internet. I especially want to grab rails which isn't in Hoary (yet?).
>>
>>Comments, help and suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you require
>>further info about the context of this problem just drop me a line.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Nicholas
>>
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