[Rails] Install rubygems error

[Patrick Hurley]

On 4/1/06, Stuart Batty <stuart.batty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Chad,
> Thank you for the information. Yes, I did install ruby from source (v1.8.4)
> on Ubuntu 5.10. You are correct about zlib. I got the following message:
> stuart at kubuntu:~$ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'zlib'
> LoadError: no such file to load -- zlib
>         from (irb):1:in `require'
>         from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0> exit
>
> Zlib was installed at one time but it is now either among the absentees or
> somehow munged beyond repair. I'll reinstall zlib and see where that gets
> me.
>
> I can't believe I actually got help from Chad Fowler....how cool is that?
>
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FYI If you were missing zlib, you are likely missing readline dev
stuff as well -- this will be an issue if you like to use console/irb.
I went through similar issues on ubuntu after upgrading ruby.

pth