Hi, I have a few tips to add to Debian specific installation page. Apparently there's no convenient way to submit a PR against GH wiki, so here we go...
diff --git a/Installation:-Debian-and-Ubuntu.md b/Installation:-Debian-and-Ubuntu.md index c1136d0..0cb6b7d 100644 --- a/Installation:-Debian-and-Ubuntu.md +++ b/Installation:-Debian-and-Ubuntu.md @@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ gem install sup # sudo is not needed if not using system ruby ``` Note: On a freshly set-up Debian 8.1 with a virgin ruby installation, you might get an error while trying to install the latest version of Sup, which is thanks to a missing library (xapian). Easily fixed by fetching the native Debian version straight from the repository (`apt-get install ruby-xapian`) and running the above commands again ;) +If you get `No such file or directory -- /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/rake-12.3.1/exe/rake`, installing fresh rake via rubygems (`gem install rake`) might help. + +If installation fails on `xapian-ruby` without any specific error message, try installing that package first (`gem install xapian-ruby`) and then sup. + +If you can't or don't want to install gems globally, there's always the option to install them under your home directory (`~/.gem/`) with `gem install --user-install <gemname>`. Then you need to also make sure you have gem binaries in your path. That you can achieve for example by appending `PATH="$HOME/.gem/ruby/2.5.0/bin:$PATH"` to your `~/.profile`. ### Rubygems `PATH` issue on old systems -- Tero -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Sup email client" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/supmua/e2f8eac2-2d7d-44e0-8bb6-de6a0777ce08n%40googlegroups.com.
