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heymrcarter
heymrcarter

Reputation: 678

Error when trying to run gem install

I'm trying to get rails up and running on my development server. It's a fedora14 box. I installed rvm, ruby 1.8.7, and rubygems 1.6.2. When I try to install rails via gem, gem install rails, i get the following error:

ERROR: Loading command: install (LoadError)
    no such file to load -- zlib
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NameError)
    uninitialized constant Gem::Commands::InstallCommand

Any ideas as to what is going on. I'm 100% new to ruby/rubygems/rails and I know enough about Linux to be dangerous so any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10745

Answers (3)

Dhruva Sagar
Dhruva Sagar

Reputation: 7307

What this error means is that zlib library is missing. This is a common problem and if you google for it, you'd find loads of information on the same. In ubuntu (where I work) installing the package zlib1g-dev and zlib1g fixes it. I am not sure what the equivalent package in Fedora is, but you should be able to search / find that.

Upvotes: 0

Dylan Markow
Dylan Markow

Reputation: 124409

Run rvm notes and install whatever it tells you (zlib-devel will probably be one of the packages you'll need to install via yum). The output you'll see will be similar to this:

  # For Ruby (MRI & Ree) you should install the following OS dependencies:
  ruby: yum install -y gcc-c++ patch readline readline-devel zlib zlib-devel libyaml-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel ;
        yum install -y make bzip2 ;
        yum install -y iconv-devel # NOTE: For centos 5.4 final iconv-devel might not be available :(

Upvotes: 9

Michael Papile
Michael Papile

Reputation: 6856

You need to install the zlib libraries. A gem is trying to use it with a C extension but it is not found. http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=zlib-devel&system=&arch= Install zlib-devel.

Upvotes: 0

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