I tried to install rmagick using gem today and got this:
raz@flere-imsaho:~/rubygems-0.9.0$ sudo gem update system Updating installed gems... Attempting remote update of system ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException) Could not find system (> 0) in the repository raz@flere-imsaho:~/rubygems-0.9.0$ gem install rails -include-dependencies Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency activerecord? [Yn] Y Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn] Y Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency actionmailer? [Yn] Y Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency actionwebservice? [Yn] Y Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Successfully installed rails-1.2.1 Successfully installed activerecord-1.15.1 Successfully installed actionpack-1.13.1 Successfully installed actionmailer-1.3.1 Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.2.1 Installing ri documentation for activerecord-1.15.1... Installing ri documentation for actionpack-1.13.1...lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1050:30: ':' not followed by identified or operator lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1054:39: ':' not followed by identified or operator Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-1.3.1... Installing ri documentation for actionwebservice-1.2.1... Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.15.1... Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.13.1... lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1050:30: ':' not followed by identified or operator lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1054:39: ':' not followed by identified or operator Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.3.1... Installing RDoc documentation for actionwebservice-1.2.1... raz@flere-imsaho:~/rubygems-0.9.0$ sudo gem install rmagick Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org . complete Building native extensions. This could take a while... configure: error: Can't install RMagick. Can't find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program. 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/rmagick-1.15.0 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.0/gem_make.out
Well, I have heard some rumours about the existence of some minor oddities with the Ubuntu version of Ruby so as I have done with other things, I am going to shun apt-get and compile from source instead.
Lets see what happens…!
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