Problem installing rubygems

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After downloading the latest sources of ruby-gems 8.10 and
> ruby setup.rb all
I ran into errors in post_install.rb. I`ve located the position in code and reproduced the error in irb:
Any ideas ?
btw. running SuSE 9.3

thanks,
Andreas

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def install_sources
   $: << "lib"
   require 'rubygems'
   Gem::manage_gems
   Dir.chdir("pkgs/sources") do
     load "sources.gemspec"
     spec = Gem.sources_spec
     gem_file = Gem::Builder.new(spec).build
     Gem::Installer.new(gem_file).install(true, Gem.dir, false)
   end
end

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irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Gem::manage_gems
LoadError: No such file to load -- zlib
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:9
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb:1
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:61:in `manage_gems'
         from (irb):2

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I don't think I've seen this issue in SuSE before. This is a common problem
in system that don't bundle zlib with the base ruby installation (or building
from source on systems that don't have the zipping libraries).

You can test this by typing "require 'zlib'" in irb.

See also http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/15#page66 (although the entry
is a bit brief).

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On Monday 13 June 2005 04:40 pm, Andreas Habel wrote:

After downloading the latest sources of ruby-gems 8.10 and

> ruby setup.rb all

I ran into errors in post_install.rb. I`ve located the position in code
and reproduced the error in irb:
Any ideas ?
btw. running SuSE 9.3

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Jim Weirich wrote:
  >

I don't think I've seen this issue in SuSE before. This is a common problem in system that don't bundle zlib with the base ruby installation (or building from source on systems that don't have the zipping libraries).

You can test this by typing "require 'zlib'" in irb.

See also http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/15#page66 (although the entry is a bit brief).

Thanks for your help. I build ruby from source and zlib-devel wasn`t installed because my DVD was only SuSE 9.3 personal ;-(

Now everything works fine!

Andreas