Forum: wxRuby 10.04 Ubuntu

Hi, Chauk-Mean and all -

I have just ported everything to 10.04 ubuntu, and I am pleased to note 
that
I was able to use prepackaged stuff almost everywhere.

Yes, it was painful before I figured it out. :)

I used apt-get to install ruby-1.8.7, all the wx libraries (including 
the
dev header packages)

I uninstalled the debian rubygems package completely and installed
rubygems-1.4.1 from the source.

I then installed everything else (including wxruby-2.0.1) from gems. The 
gem
manager does not appear to be able to work its way through a  proxy 
server,
so I downloaded all the necessary gems by hand.

Attached is the pertinent code from my installer script.

    puts "Installing Ruby tools, SWIG and wxWidgets development 
libraries"
    puts "  ( This may take a little while )"
    %x{ apt-get install -y ruby1.8-dev rake swig }
    %x{ apt-get install -y --reinstall libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev }
    %x{ apt-get install -y --reinstall libwxbase2.8-0 libwxbase2.8-dev
libwxbase2.8-dbg  }
    %x{ apt-get install -y --reinstall wx-common libwxgtk2.8-0
libwxgtk2.8-dev  }
    puts "Copying Ruby libraries to /usr/local/etc for installation"
    FileUtils.cp %w( rubygems-1.4.1.tgz ruby-sysvipc-0.9.1.tar.gz 
prawn.tgz
), '/usr/local/etc'
    FileUtils.cd '/usr/local/etc' do
        puts "Installing updated RubyGems package manager."
        %x{ tar -zxvf rubygems-1.4.1.tgz }
        FileUtils.cd './rubygems-1.4.1' do
            %x{ ruby ./setup.rb }
           begin
            %x{ rm /usr/bin/gem }
            %x{ ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem }
        end
        puts "Installing SysV IPC library for Shared Memory and 
Semaphores"
        %x{ tar -zxvf ruby-sysvipc-0.9.1.tar.gz }
        FileUtils.cd './ruby-sysvipc-0.9.1' do
            %x{ ruby ./setup.rb }
            %x{ gem install ./SysVIPC-0.9.1.gem }
        end
        puts "Installing Prawn library for PDF generation"
        %x{ tar -zxvf prawn.tgz }
        FileUtils.cd './prawn' do
            %x{ gem install rake test-spec pdf-reader mocha }
            %x{ rake }
            %x{ gem build prawn.gemspec }
            %x{ gem install prawn-0.11.1.pre.gem }
        end
        FileUtils.rm %w( rubygems-1.4.1.tgz ruby-sysvipc-0.9.1.tar.gz
prawn.tgz )
    end
    puts "Installing wxRuby wrapper around wxWidgets C++ libraries"
    %x{ gem install ./wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux.gem }

I started to put a rescue wrapper around the %x{ rm /usr/bin/gem } line 
but
hit tab out of habit and gmail sent it, so there's an extra begin in 
there.
Use this code only as an example!