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Cheers, Sazima On May 29, 12:59 am, "J. D." <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote: > Hi everyone - thanks for all of the input. Here's an update: > > I did install VirtualBox on my Vista and got the latest ubuntu and > created a virtual drive etc., installing it. > > I'm now up and running with Vista and Ubuntu > > I managed to figure out how to install ruby with a sudo command. But, > having a lot of other issues. I'm not all that familiar with linux so > here's the list of issues I'm experiencing: > > I'm currently using ruby1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux] > according to ruby -v. > > I managed to get rubygems by typing sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8 and > that installed the gems system. > > I did gems install rails and got a strange error saying that I don't > have /home/elricstorm/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your path... > > I went out on the web and figured out how to change path by doing.. > > PATH=$PATH:/home/elricstorm/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin > export PATH > > I tried installing hpricot, mysql, a few others and keep getting the > following error: > > WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.8 and > /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin aren't both writable... > Building native extensions. This could take a while... > Error: Error installing mysql: > ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. > > /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install mysql > extconf.rb:1:in `require`: no such file to load --mkmf (LoadError) from > extconf.rb: 1 > > .. I get this for a few gems, similar... > > Any help with my newbish run at linux would be appreciated. Also, what > should I be using for an editor to program with on linux.. On windows I > just used Scite.. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---