Thanks, Phillip. Please see comments below...
Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
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Tom Cloyd wrote:
> I'm trying to install the most recent fxruby gem - I don't understand
> what's happening:
>
> sudo gem install fxruby-1.6.14.gem ERROR: While executing gem ...
> (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
> Could not find fxruby-1.6.14.gem (> 0) in any repository
>
> That makes no
> sense to me. I got that version number from output of the 'gem list -r
> -d' command, to wit:
My workaround:
http://gems.rubyforge.org/ contains a link to the gems themselves, and
you can simply download them from there.
'gem install /download/location/thegem-1.1.1.gem' will install them.
Please see note [1] below.
You might have to fetch the dependencies yourself, though.
And how would I know what those are?
Be careful to grab the gem appropriate for your OS. 
N.B.: I just downloaded the BlueCloth gem via 'gem install BlueCloth'.
It is possible the mirror you hit is currently synching its repository
against RubyForge, or otherwise not able to server files.
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[1] I'm feeling rather defeated here. Four attempts - same result in all cases. I'm trying everything I can think of, to no avail. I'm running on Kubuntu Linux 7.10 (most current version). Sorry for the length of this - didn't want to leave out anything important:
ATTEMPT TO INSTALL FROM REMOTE LOCATION:
[a] $ sudo gem install 'http://rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem'
[sudo] password for tom:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find http://rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem (> 0) in any repository
[b] $ sudo gem install 'rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem'
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem (> 0) in any repository
[c] $ sudo gem install '/download/rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem'
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find /download/rubyforge.rubyuser.de/gems/fxruby-1.6.14.gem (> 0) in any repository
tom@tomcloyd-desktop:/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems$
ATTEMPT TO INSTALL FROM LOCAL DOWNLOAD:
$ sudo gem install '/home/tom/Desktop/fxruby-1.6.14.gem'
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
Error instaling /home/tom/Desktop/fxruby-1.6.14.gem:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
ruby extconf.rb install /home/tom/Desktop/fxruby-1.6.14.gem
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
--with-fox-dir
--without-fox-dir
--with-fox-include
--without-fox-include=${fox-dir}/include
--with-fox-lib
--without-fox-lib=${fox-dir}/lib
--with-fxscintilla-dir
--without-fxscintilla-dir
--with-fxscintilla-include
--without-fxscintilla-include=${fxscintilla-dir}/include
--with-fxscintilla-lib
--without-fxscintilla-lib=${fxscintilla-dir}/lib
extconf.rb:31:in `find_installed_fox_version': couldn't find FOX header files (RuntimeError)
from extconf.rb:183
COMMENT: "Fox header files" - Sorry, but I'm not a C programmer, or whatever. "header files" means almost nothing to me, and I don't know how to respond to this. The "Check the mkmf.log file for more details" reference is obscure - where IS that file? I looked several places for it, and have yet to find it.
Any an all help offered will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
t.
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