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Tom Cloyd
On a fresh install of Kubuntu Linux (ver. 8.04.01), I'm not having good
day trying to get ruby and rubygems back and functional.
The Ruby-lang. website recommends using the package manager to install
ruby, so I did that.
Then I installed rubygems 1.8 from the rubyforge tarball. I then
installed several gems successfully, but the one I really had to have -
webby - wouldn't install. I've not have this problem before, so it
doesn't seem likely that it's a webby problem.
I didn't know how to uninstall the rubygems 1.8 install. I simply went
to the adept package manager and installed rubygems from that.
But webby still won't install:
On the webby list, it was suggested that I install ruby from source.
Is that really the best idea? I developed modest pascal programs from my
own source code, years ago, but I have no idea how to compile ruby for
what I presume is C source, on Kubuntu.
What should I do? If going from source is the best idea, can anyone
point me to a resource which will bring me up to speed on how to do
this? (I'm looking for this resource, and may find it, but suggestions
are certainly welcome.)
Thanks!
t.
day trying to get ruby and rubygems back and functional.
The Ruby-lang. website recommends using the package manager to install
ruby, so I did that.
Then I installed rubygems 1.8 from the rubyforge tarball. I then
installed several gems successfully, but the one I really had to have -
webby - wouldn't install. I've not have this problem before, so it
doesn't seem likely that it's a webby problem.
I didn't know how to uninstall the rubygems 1.8 install. I simply went
to the adept package manager and installed rubygems from that.
But webby still won't install:
$ sudo gem install webby
[sudo] password for tomc:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing webby:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install webby
checking for main() in -lpthread... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
--with-pthreadlib
--without-pthreadlib
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.0 for inspection.
Results logged to
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.0/ext/gem_make.out
On the webby list, it was suggested that I install ruby from source.
Is that really the best idea? I developed modest pascal programs from my
own source code, years ago, but I have no idea how to compile ruby for
what I presume is C source, on Kubuntu.
What should I do? If going from source is the best idea, can anyone
point me to a resource which will bring me up to speed on how to do
this? (I'm looking for this resource, and may find it, but suggestions
are certainly welcome.)
Thanks!
t.