Hi,
I have installed Ruby with apt-get and after that I downloaded rubygems
without apt-get (I think rubygems is not available through apt-get) and
ran the ruby setup.rb. This worked fine for me, maybe you should try it
the same way.
Cheers
allen wrote:> Hi all,
>
> I''m trying to install ruby/ruby on rails from source on ubuntu
7.1.
> I''ve downloaded ruby-1.8.6 and done a successful install into
/usr/
> local/ruby. Next, I want to install rubygems without apt-get. So I
> downloaded rubygems, extracted it and tried to run ruby setup.rb. But
> it said that cannot load file "zlib". I know that zlib is a part
of
> the standard ruby distribution and I can find it in [ruby_sourc_path]/
> ext/zlib, but it seems that it wasn''t installed into
/usr/local/ruby
> as I expected.
>
> I found a file called extmk.rb in [ruby_source_path]/ext and thought
> this could help. So I tried to run ruby extmk.rb, but it said that
> cannot load "rbconfig".
>
> There is an aritcle on the internet saying that I can run extconf.rb
> in [ruby_sourc_path]/ext/zlib and then do a make && make install.
This
> works for me, but before I can run extconf.rb, I must install
> zlib-1.2.3 manually.
>
> Another problems is that the above approach can only install zlib.
> What if I want to install the whole ruby/ext? I think extmk.rb is the
> point but I just cannot run it successfully?
>
> Any idea on this? Thanks a lot.
>
>
> allen
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