Rails - Nov 2005 - strange crc error when install rails with gem

has anyone seen this before:

~$ gem install rails
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
Install required dependency rake? [Yn]
Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn]
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Zlib::GzipFile::CRCError)
     invalid compressed data -- crc error


vader:/opt/bin # arch
x86_64

$ uname -a
Linux vader 2.6.12.4-sis190-050808a #1 SMP Mon Aug 8 01:08:43 CEST 2005  
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I am running Suse 9.3


Regards
Peter

On Nov 11, 2005, at 4:32 AM, Pete wrote:
> has anyone seen this before:
>
> ~$ gem install rails
> 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
> Install required dependency rake? [Yn]
> Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn]
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Zlib::GzipFile::CRCError)
>     invalid compressed data -- crc error
>
>
> vader:/opt/bin # arch
> x86_64
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux vader 2.6.12.4-sis190-050808a #1 SMP Mon Aug 8 01:08:43 CEST  
> 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I am running Suse 9.3
>

Hey Pete-

	I think you are missing the zlib-devel package. I am not sure what  
this package is called on Suse as I use debian but that is the same  
error you get when you don''t have the zlib dev headers.

HTH-

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