Well, if ruby is the problem, I just tried out these instructions on my
LinuxMint vm:  Install RVM and Ruby on Ubuntu
12.04<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin-with-rvm>

After you install rvm (Ruby Version Manager), you can decide whether you
want to install 1.8.6 ( $ rvm install 1.8.6) or 1.8.7 ( $ rvm install
1.8.7).  The booh download page <http://booh.org/download.html> seems to
have some pretty strict requirements regarding which version of ruby and
the the matching ruby-gtk2 needed, so watch out for that too.

This should be pretty safe if there are no other programs that rely on ruby
on the system.

-Al




On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:07 PM, James E. LaBarre <[email protected]>wrote:

> Some time back I had created some "web photo albums" with Booh, which I
> burned to CDs for a family reunion.  My brother wanted to do another disk,
> and I was looking for what to use this time (OK, he's on Windows XP, so the
> tool he'd use wouldn't be for this forum).  In case I couldn't find
> something he could use, I figured I'd hunt down what I had used before.
>
> Once I tracked down and installed Booh, however, I found it didn't work
> with Ruby 1.9, and was looking for Ruby 1.8 files.  Mint14 doesn't have an
> installable version of Ruby 1.8 (it lists a package, but the repos are
> missing a lot of the pieces), and the source doesn't compile under Ruby
> 1.9.  So I need to find something that works *like* Booh, but is currently
> under development/maintenance (the last release was from July 2010).  That
> means the resultant photo album can be viewed offline (from CD), and needs
> to have free-form text for each photo (for the information & names on the
> backs of the photographs), and ideally should link to the original
> full-size scans on the CD.
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