Rails - Mar 2005 - error installing rails

Hello, 

I was unable to find a similar problem in the archives, so I ask for
your help.  I am completely new to Rails, having become interested in
it after reading a blog entry on the utility of Rails
(http://www.osteele.com).

Anyway, I have ruby 1.8.2 and successfully installed gem 0.8.6 on
ubuntu linux.  When I attempt to install rails via:

   sudo gem install rails

The download goes smoothly until:

   ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)  uninitialized constant
ActionView::Base

I have tried this on two separate computers with the same result.

In case this is useful, here is the output of "sudo gem list":

* > sudo gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionpack (1.5.1)
    Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

activerecord (1.8.0)
    Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport (1.0.1)
    Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

rake (0.4.15)
    Ruby based make-like utility.

sources (0.0.1)
    This package provides download sources for remote gem installation


Thanks for any suggestions.

- david

> Several people have reported this error, but I haven''t been able
to reproduce
> it on my machine.  If you could provide a stack trace for the error, it
would
> be most helpful.
> 
> To get a stack trace, use the --backtrace option on the gem command:
> 
> sudo gem --backtrace install rails
Jim,

I searched a bit more through the archives and found the following
link that solved my problem:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/RailsOnDebianUnstable

Now, I have rails working on one computer, but in case you''re still
interested in the backtrace, here is what it looks like on the unfixed
computer:


Attempting local installation of ''rails''
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ''rails''
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
    uninitialized constant ActionView::Base
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.5.1/lib/action_view.rb:36
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
`require__''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require''
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in
`require''
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.5.1/lib/action_controller.rb:49
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
`require__''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require''
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in
`require''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:163:in `activate''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:34:in `require_gem''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:460:in
`find_dependencies_not_installed''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:458:in `each''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:458:in
`find_dependencies_not_installed''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:374:in
`install''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:168:in `execute''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:129:in `each''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:129:in `execute''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:49:in `invoke''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:90:in
`process_args''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:63:in `run''
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in `run''
/usr/bin/gem:17

- david