# Errors When Installing Ruby 1.9 From Source

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/errors-when-installing-ruby-1-9-from-source/133089>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 27, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/errors-when-installing-ruby-1-9-from-source/133089 "2008-03-27T16:52:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacobly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4da419/32.png) [@jacobly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jacobly)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/errors-when-installing-ruby-1-9-from-source/133089/1 "2008-03-27T16:52:13Z")

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I have installed my ruby/rails development environment according to  
Dan’s wonderful write-up over at Hivelogic (Thanks Dan!!):

> **[Dan Benjamin](https://danbenjamin.com)**
>
> Dan Benjamin's personal website.

I’m now trying to install Ruby 1.9 in the same manner. Everything goes  
swell until “sudo make install”, in which I get the error below. Anybody  
know what’s wrong? (Please note that I’m just following Dan’s write-up  
and have little knowledge.)

./miniruby ./instruby.rb --dest-dir=“” --extout=“.ext” --make=“make”  
–mflags=“” --make-flags=“” --installed-list .installed.list  
–mantype=“doc”  
installing binary commands  
/usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/fileutils.rb:787:in `size': No such file or directory - ruby (Errno::ENOENT) from /usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/fileutils.rb:787:in `compare\_file’  
from /usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/fileutils.rb:835:in `block in install' from /usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/fileutils.rb:1392:in `block in  
fu\_each\_src\_dest’  
from /usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/fileutils.rb:1406:in  
`fu_each_src_dest0' from /usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/fileutils.rb:1390:in `fu\_each\_src\_dest’  
from /usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/fileutils.rb:834:in `install' from ./instruby.rb:99:in `install’  
from ./instruby.rb:192:in `block in <main>' from ./instruby.rb:362:in `call’  
from ./instruby.rb:362:in `block (2 levels) in <main>' from ./instruby.rb:359:in `each’  
from ./instruby.rb:359:in `block in <main>' from ./instruby.rb:358:in `each’  
from ./instruby.rb:358:in `’  
make: \*\*\* [do-install-nodoc] Error 1

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**Author:** ![jacobly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4da419/32.png) [@jacobly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jacobly)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/errors-when-installing-ruby-1-9-from-source/133089/2 "2008-03-29T14:30:24Z")

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Hi,

At Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:52:03 +0900,  
Jacob L. wrote in [ruby-talk:295995]:

> /usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.0-0/lib/fileutils.rb:787:in `size’: No such file  
> or directory - ruby (Errno::ENOENT)

Have you run `make’?