# \<\<help with installing rails with ruby gems\>\>

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-installing-rails-with-ruby-gems/193206>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 13, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-installing-rails-with-ruby-gems/193206 "2010-08-13T05:19:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-installing-rails-with-ruby-gems/193206/1 "2010-08-13T05:19:08Z")

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ok so i am running virtual machine with virtual rails on my  
laptop…OS is Linux Mint…I have followed the steps in the tutorial  
and this is what I’ve done so far:

sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev irb  
sudo apt-get install sqlite3

next I attempted to install rails by typing in the following:  
wget [http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz)

the following message is what i got:

wget [http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz)  
–2010-08-13 04:59:59–  
[http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz)  
Resolving [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org)… 205.234.109.19  
Connecting to rubyforge.org|205.234.109.19|:80… connected.  
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK  
Length: 0 [text/html]  
Saving to: `5…0.8.11.tgz’

next I attempted to unpack the ruby gems by typing the following:  
tar -zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz

this is where Im stuck…I got the following message and dont know what  
to do…keep in mind I am a novice at this and dont know anything  
about ROR… I am learning on my own

tar -zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz  
tar: rubygems-0.8.11.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory  
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now  
tar: Child returned status 2  
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-installing-rails-with-ruby-gems/193206/2 "2010-08-13T12:16:27Z")

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Hi Rich,

there is several things to say about your question :

1. if, like I think, your running VirtualRails, you DON’T have to  
install Ruby, SQLite, RubyGems and Rails : they ARE ALREADY INSTALLED  
that is all the interest of using VirtualRails : all is there, you  
just have to start développing Rails Apps.  
Find in your turorial the part that say “créate en new rails  
application” with the “rails my\_application\_name” command 🙂

2. For your particular tar problem, the error message is explicit :  
“No such file or directory”  
The name you gave to the tar command doesn’t correspond to a file. It  
must be the same name that the one you gave to the wget command.  
in you message you say you have donne this :  
wget [http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5...0.8.11.tgz) (here the  
filename is “5…0.8.11.tgz”…by the way, what is this file,  
“5…0.0.11.tgz” ?)  
tar -zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz (here the filename is  
“rubygems-0.8.11.tgz”)

keep trying 🙂