Ruby Gems install - PLSE help

[Darryl Clarke]

On 12/15/05, Paul Thompson <ubantu001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I am a newbie to linux and I am trying to install rubygems. I have
> installed Ruby and that seems fine but when I try to install Gems (I am
> using the files from www.rubyonrails.org),  this is what I get:-
>
[snip]

>
>  sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
> `require__': No such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)

[snip]

Looks like you need the zlib extention for ruby, since you're not
using ubuntu packages, i can't really tell you where to get it.

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