rubygem problem

Al Gordon runlevel7 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 19:01:22 UTC 2005


On 10/10/05, Wang Liang <bonede at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,all
> I installed ruby from the source list,but when I run "gem",it gets this:
> /usr/bin/gem:3:in `require': No such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)
>         from /usr/bin/gem:3
> my Ubuntu: Ubuntu Linux 5.04: The Hoary Hedgehog Release
> Anyboy can help me?

You will need to install rubygems, which is not packaged for Ubuntu
5.04, but I believe may be available for 5.10 in a packaged format.

If you're willing to install unpackaged software on your Hoary system,
you can get rubygems here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126

Download, uncompress (tar xzvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz), cd to the
directory it creates, then run "sudo ruby setup.rb".  It will install
the following files:

/usr/bin/gemwhich
/usr/bin/gem
/usr/bin/gem_server
/usr/bin/generate_yaml_index.rb
/usr/bin/update_rubygems
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/gemconfigure.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/config_file.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/old_format.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/open-uri.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/rubygems_version.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/deployment.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/timer.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/user_interaction.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/validator.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_list.rb

If that doesn't work for you, let me know.  It's been a while since I
installed rubygems on my system, but I must have gotten it working
somehow.

--

  -- AL --




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