Gem install problem on FC3

[Jim Van Fleet]

I'm on a fresh Fedora Core 3 box where my goal is to eventually have a
FastCGI enabled version of Ruby On Rails.

I've installed Ruby from source. When I attempt to install rubygems,
however, I get the following error

$ ruby test/zlib/test_zlib.rb

returns instantly with no output.

irb reports "No such file to load -- zlib"

I'm guessing that this means that zlib isn't installed on my system.

But...

yum doesn't seem to be able to do anything with "zlib"; it does have a
package called 'zip'.

The contents of the filesystem include the following:

/usr/share/doc/zlib-1.2.1.2
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/include/linux/zlib.h
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/include/config/zlib
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/include/config/zlib/inflate.h
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/include/config/zlib/deflate
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/include/config/zlib/deflate/module.h
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/lib/zlib_deflate
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/lib/zlib_deflate/Makefile
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/lib/zlib_inflate
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/lib/zlib_inflate/Makefile
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/kernel/lib/zlib_deflate/zlib_deflate.ko

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This is highly similar to a reported bug at rubyforge:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1288&group_id=126&atid=575

However, I infer that was a debian system, since libzlib is at
http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/libzlib-ruby

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Can someone give me a pointer? I've taken a bunch of stabs in the dark,
but no success in any direction.


Thanks a bunch,

Jim

 

[Jim Van Fleet]

Can someone give me a pointer? I've taken a bunch of stabs in the dark,

but no success in any direction.

Following up to my own post:

I installed zlib from source, redid the Ruby install process, and it
worked beautifully. Onto the next steps.

Cheers,

Jim