I am the upstream maintainer for Alexandria, the root cause of this issue is
documented on the RubyForge Tracker
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detailatid=863aid=27418group_id=205
Basically, Alexandria needs the 'marc' ruby library to read data over
Z39.50 (ZOOM). Older versions of Ruby/ZOOM
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: libhpricot-ruby
Using Xubuntu 9.04 alpha-6 on i386, I found libhpricot-ruby 0.8-1
doesn't find elements using XPath queries. Using version 0.8.1 of the
hpricot gem solved the issue, so libhpricot-ruby 0.8.1-1 from Debian
testing should also fix the