Ruby Forum Ruby on Rails > INSTALLATION PROBLEM ON FEDORA 8

hi,

am  newbie to ruby on rails in linux,am trying to setup ruby on rails
environment on fedora 8. i started by executing this command

yum -y install ruby ruby-devel ruby-irb ruby-libs ruby-rdoc ruby-ri
rubygems

this is the result that i got

Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package ruby available.
No package ruby-devel available.
No package ruby-irb available.
No package ruby-libs available.
No package ruby-rdoc available.
No package ruby-ri available.
No package rubygems available.
Nothing to do

i do not know why am  getting  this,  what do i do to get rid of this so
that i can finish these  installation, your help please

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:14 +0200, Adolf Charles wrote:
> Setting up Install Process
> i do not know why am  getting  this,  what do i do to get rid of this so
> that i can finish these  installation, your help please
----
is it possible that they are already installed?

what is output of commands (as root)...

rpm -qa|grep ruby
yum repolist

Craig

Craig White wrote:
> 
> what is output of commands (as root)...
> 
> rpm -qa|grep ruby
> yum repolist
> 
> 

rpm -qa|grep ruby  does not give anything just another prompt i.e

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa|grep ruby
[root@localhost ~]#


and  yum repolist  gives  the  folowing

[root@localhost ~]# yum repolist
repo id              repo name                                 status
InstallMedia         Fedora 8                                  enabled

what next please?

thanks craig

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:46 +0200, Adolf Charles wrote:
> 
> what next please?
----
that doesn't look right at all.

what is output of 'rpm -qa|grep fedora-release'
(I'm looking to see if you have fedora-release and fedora-release-notes
packages installed)

My /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo looks like this - and even though I am
using Fedora 9, Fedora 8 should be much the same.

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

and likewise.../etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo should look like
this

[updates]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Updates Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Craig

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:46 +0200, Adolf Charles wrote:
>> 
>> what next please?
> ----
> that doesn't look right at all.
> 
> what is output of 'rpm -qa|grep fedora-release'
> (I'm looking to see if you have fedora-release and fedora-release-notes
> packages installed)
> 

'rpm -qa|grep fedora-release'  gives  the  following


fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3
fedora-release-8-3

any suggestion please?

adolf

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:19 +0200, Adolf Charles wrote:
> > 
> 
> 'rpm -qa|grep fedora-release'  gives  the  following
> 
> 
> fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3
> fedora-release-8-3
> 
> any suggestion please?
----
the output of yum repolist doesn't show that fedora or fedora-updates
repos are enabled. That's why I output the contents
of /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
in my previous e-mail so you could compare yours to mine.

You might try as root (after comparing the files)...

yum clean all
yum update
# then finally
yum install ruby ruby-libs ruby-devel ruby-irb ruby-doc rubygems

Craig

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:19 +0200, Adolf Charles wrote:
>> > 
>> 
>> 'rpm -qa|grep fedora-release'  gives  the  following
>> 
>> 
>> fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3
>> fedora-release-8-3
>> 
>> any suggestion please?
> ----
> the output of yum repolist doesn't show that fedora or fedora-updates
> repos are enabled. That's why I output the contents
> of /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
> in my previous e-mail so you could compare yours to mine.
>
this  is my  /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo,



[fedora]
name=Fedora 8 - i386
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
enabled = 0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora 8 - i386 - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-8&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora 8 - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY


and  my  /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo   looks  like  this

[updates]
name=Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=i386
enabled = 0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-debuginfo]
name=Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-debug-f8&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-source]
name=Fedora 8 - Updates Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f8&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedor


do  i need  to  change  anything  before  i run the  command  that you 
mentioned last time?

See below...you need to edit those files to 'enable' fedora and updates

Craig

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:52 +0200, Adolf Charles wrote:
> >> any suggestion please?
> [fedora]
> name=Fedora 8 - i386
> failovermethod=priority
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
> enabled = 0
---
change to enabled = 1
---
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 
> enabled = 0
---
change to enabled = 1
---

Craig White wrote:
> See below...you need to edit those files to 'enable' fedora and updates
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:52 +0200, Adolf Charles wrote:
>> >> any suggestion please?
>> [fedora]
>> name=Fedora 8 - i386
>> failovermethod=priority
>> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/
>> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
>> enabled = 0
> ---
> change to enabled = 1
> ---
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 
>> enabled = 0
> ---
> change to enabled = 1


thanks  craig  for your  valuable  contribution.

all the  best

adolf
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