Hi Brian - I believe before installing the ncursesw gem, you need to install libncurses-ruby (using aptitude). You may also need libncursesw-dev; I've got both of those installed on my machine, and I'm honestly not sure which one is necessary.
Ian Excerpts from Brian May's message of Sun Apr 11 19:08:28 -0400 2010: > Hello, > > I have been trying out sup, and rather like it. Unfortunately, it > seems very easy > to crash :-( > > First things though, how do I get utf8 support working properly? > > [Mon Apr 12 08:52:00 +1000 2010] No 'ncursesw' gem detected. Install > it for wide character support. > > How do I install this on a Ubuntu Karmic system? > > I tried: > > br...@aquitard:~/tree/sup$ sudo gem install ncursesw > Building native extensions. This could take a while... > ERROR: Error installing ncursesw: > ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. > > /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb > extconf.rb:23:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError) > from extconf.rb:23 > > > Gem files will remain installed in > /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1 for inspection. > Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1/gem_make.out > > > Thanks -- Ian Smith [email protected] http://www.bostonaccess.org _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
