Ruby Gems install - PLSE help

[Paul Thompson]

Found zlib then did this and got the results below:

pjt at pjtlaptop:~$ tar zxvf ruby-zlib-0.6.0.tar.gz
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/doc/
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/doc/zlib.rd
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/doc/zlib.rd.ja
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/doc/Makefile
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/doc/langsplit.rb
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/doc/zlib.rd.src
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/doc/zlib.html
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/doc/zlib.ja.html
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/.cvsignore
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/ChangeLog
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/MANIFEST
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/THANKS
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/extconf.rb
ruby-zlib-0.6.0/zlib.c
pjt at pjtlaptop:~$ cd ruby-zlib-0.6.0
pjt at pjtlaptop:~/ruby-zlib-0.6.0$ ruby extconf.rb
checking for deflateReset() in -lz... no
checking for deflateReset() in -llibz... no
checking for deflateReset() in -lzlib... no
pjt at pjtlaptop:~/ruby-zlib-0.6.0$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

What next?

Regards,

Paul


On 12/16/05, Darryl Clarke <smartssa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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