# Install Glitch

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-glitch/94981>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 18, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-glitch/94981 "2006-05-18T18:31:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/91b2a8/32.png) [@dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dcian)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-glitch/94981/1 "2006-05-18T18:31:24Z")

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Ubuntu 5.10, Ruby 1.8.3. I installed rubygems, then tried rails, and  
get a tragic looking error at the end. Is this a problem? It looks  
related to rdoc.

root@bonus:/usr/local/rubygems-0.8.11# gem install rails  
–include-dependencies  
Attempting local installation of ‘rails’  
Local gem file not found: rails\*.gem  
Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’  
Updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
Successfully installed rails-1.1.2  
Successfully installed rake-0.7.1  
Successfully installed activesupport-1.3.1  
Successfully installed activerecord-1.14.2  
Successfully installed actionpack-1.12.1  
Successfully installed actionmailer-1.2.1  
Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.1.2  
/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:21:in  
`require__': no such file to load -- rdoc/rdoc (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require’  
from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc\_manager.rb:43:in  
`generate_rdoc' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:215:in `execute’  
from  
/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem\_commands.rb:214:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:214:in `execute’  
from  
/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem\_commands.rb:153:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:153:in `execute’  
from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:49:in  
`invoke' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:94:in `process\_args’  
from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd\_manager.rb:67:in  
`run' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:13:in `run’  
from /usr/bin/gem:17  
root@bonus:/usr/local/rubygems-0.8.11# gem

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**Author:** ![dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/91b2a8/32.png) [@dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dcian)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-glitch/94981/2 "2006-05-18T18:59:01Z")

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Never mind, it seems rails doesn’t _work_ with 1.8.3. Nice.

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**Author:** ![dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/91b2a8/32.png) [@dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dcian)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-glitch/94981/3 "2006-05-18T20:11:45Z")

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Ian H. wrote:

> Never mind, it seems rails doesn’t _work_ with 1.8.3. Nice.

[http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37](http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37)

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**Author:** ![dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/91b2a8/32.png) [@dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dcian)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 6:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-glitch/94981/4 "2006-05-27T06:34:11Z")

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Thanks, that’s about what I ended up doing.

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**Author:** ![dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/91b2a8/32.png) [@dcian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dcian)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-glitch/94981/5 "2006-05-18T20:12:57Z")

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Michael G. wrote:

> Ian H. wrote:
> 
> > Never mind, it seems rails doesn’t _work_ with 1.8.3. Nice.
> 
> [http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37](http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37)

I’ll try agagin…

Here’s a link to a quick and dirty rails from source howto for ubuntu

[http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37](http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37)