Ferret talk - May 2006 - Problems installing on Fedora

Hello everyone,
I am new to Ferret and new to this mailing list. I am having a problem
installing.

sudo gem install ferret
Attempting local installation of ''ferret''
Local gem file not found: ferret*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ''ferret''
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
can''t find header files for ruby.
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.9.3for inspection.
  ruby extconf.rb install ferret\n
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.9.3/ext/gem_make.out

After that I thought that maybe the c extensions just didn''t compile
but
then I tried to fire up irb...
irb(main):001:0> require ''ferret''
LoadError: no such file to load -- ferret
        from (irb):1:in `require''
        from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0> require ''rubygems''
=> true
irb(main):003:0> require ''ferret''
LoadError: no such file to load -- ferret
        from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
`require__''        from
/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require''
        from (irb):3

This machine is a brand new installation of Fedora Core 5. I also just
installed ruby and gem. Am I missing a library somewhere? Any help is
greatly appreciated.

Regards,
John
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Hi John,

You''re missing the ruby header files, ie ruby.h. I''m guessing
Fedora
doesn''t come with ruby-devel installed by default. (I use Ubuntu). Try
installing the RPM from here;

    http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ruby-devel

Or perhaps this will do the job;

    sudo yum install ruby-devel

Please let us know if you get it working.

Cheers,
Dave

On 5/13/06, John Andrews <john.m.andrews at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I am new to Ferret and new to this mailing list. I am having a problem
> installing.
>
> sudo gem install ferret
> Attempting local installation of ''ferret''
> Local gem file not found: ferret*.gem
>  Attempting remote installation of ''ferret''
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> can''t find header files for ruby.
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> Gem files will remain installed in
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.9.3 for inspection.
>   ruby extconf.rb install ferret\n
> Results logged to
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.9.3/ext/gem_make.out
>
> After that I thought that maybe the c extensions just didn''t
compile but
> then I tried to fire up irb...
> irb(main):001:0> require ''ferret''
> LoadError: no such file to load -- ferret
>         from (irb):1:in `require''
>         from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0> require ''rubygems''
> => true
> irb(main):003:0> require ''ferret''
> LoadError: no such file to load -- ferret
>         from
> /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
> `require__''        from
> /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
> `require''
>         from (irb):3
>
> This machine is a brand new installation of Fedora Core 5. I also just
> installed ruby and gem. Am I missing a library somewhere? Any help is
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
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>
>

That was it, Dave. Thanks!
-John

On 5/13/06, David Balmain <dbalmain.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> You''re missing the ruby header files, ie ruby.h. I''m
guessing Fedora
> doesn''t come with ruby-devel installed by default. (I use Ubuntu).
Try
> installing the RPM from here;
>
>     http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ruby-devel
>
> Or perhaps this will do the job;
>
>     sudo yum install ruby-devel
>
> Please let us know if you get it working.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
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