Hi Rich, there is several things to say about your question :
1) if, like I think, your running VirtualRails, you DON'T have to install Ruby, SQLite, RubyGems and Rails : they ARE ALREADY INSTALLED that is all the interest of using VirtualRails : all is there, you just have to start développing Rails Apps. Find in your turorial the part that say "créate en new rails application" with the "rails my_application_name" command :) 2) For your particular tar problem, the error message is explicit : "No such file or directory" The name you gave to the tar command doesn't correspond to a file. It must be the same name that the one you gave to the wget command. in you message you say you have donne this : wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz (here the filename is "5...0.8.11.tgz"...by the way, what is this file, "5...0.0.11.tgz" ?) tar -zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz (here the filename is "rubygems-0.8.11.tgz") keep trying :) On 13 août, 05:18, Rich d <elevenb4...@gmail.com> wrote: > ok so i am running virtual machine with virtual rails on my > laptop...OS is Linux Mint....I have followed the steps in the tutorial > and this is what I've done so far: > > sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev irb > sudo apt-get install sqlite3 > > next I attempted to install rails by typing in the following: > wgethttp://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz > > the following message is what i got: > > wgethttp://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz > --2010-08-13 04:59:59-- http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz > Resolving rubyforge.org... 205.234.109.19 > Connecting to rubyforge.org|205.234.109.19|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 0 [text/html] > Saving to: `5...0.8.11.tgz' > > next I attempted to unpack the ruby gems by typing the following: > tar -zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz > > this is where Im stuck..I got the following message and dont know what > to do...keep in mind I am a novice at this and dont know anything > about ROR... I am learning on my own > > tar -zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz > tar: rubygems-0.8.11.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors -- 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-t...@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.
