# Install problem:: rdoc/ruport from gem **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 22, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-problem-rdoc-ruport-from-gem/54090 "2006-02-22T20:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jansenh)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-problem-rdoc-ruport-from-gem/54090/1 "2006-02-22T20:39:52Z")
Hi group. More newbie stuff… I have the above mentioned problem - ruport fails while installing from gem… ruby(1.8.3/ubuntu) says “no such file to load – rdoc/rdoc”. I have tried to gem rdoc as well, --remote… Then gem says: “could not find rdoc in repository”. rdoc appears to be the problem, not ruport itself So far I have : - apt-get installed ruby-1.8.3 - manually installed rubygems-0.8.11.tgz - gem install rubygems-update and my gem is (gem -v) 0.8.11 HELP! * * * Be kind, I am just a poor VisualStudio/C# guy, used to have everything working by clicking ‘next’ - ‘next’ -‘next’, and then adding a 25-letter license code. This is my first attempt with gems. Its also my first time with ruby on Linux (ubuntu). I have a little experience with ruby-1.8.2 on winXP and osX only… but only out-of-the-box stuff. Never used or installed anything else than the default package. Gems seems like a very neat approach, appart from me not being able to install my particular package this particular time 😉 regards, Henning Norway ---
**Author:** ![jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jansenh)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-problem-rdoc-ruport-from-gem/54090/2 "2006-02-22T20:52:08Z")
On Feb 22, 2006, at 2:38 PM, jansenh wrote: > ## rdoc appears to be the problem, not ruport itself > > regards, Henning > Norway I think you want to do something like apt-get install ruby18-doc, I’m not sure I’m not on Debian anymore. Alternatively, just install ruby from source. ---
**Author:** ![jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jansenh)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-problem-rdoc-ruport-from-gem/54090/3 "2006-02-22T21:13:39Z")
On 2/22/06, Logan C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > not > > find rdoc in repository". It’s just sudo gem install rdoc. Feel free to direct further questions to [http://lists.stonecode.org/listinfo.cgi/ruport-stonecode.org](http://lists.stonecode.org/listinfo.cgi/ruport-stonecode.org) ---
**Author:** ![jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jansenh)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-problem-rdoc-ruport-from-gem/54090/4 "2006-02-22T21:34:53Z")
On 2/22/06, jansenh [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi group. More newbie stuff… > > I have the above mentioned problem - ruport fails while installing from > gem… ruby(1.8.3/ubuntu) says “no such file to load – rdoc/rdoc”. I > have tried to gem rdoc as well, --remote… Then gem says: “could not > find rdoc in repository”. For those using ubuntu, I’ve strung together a mess of commands that’ll get Ruport running in one shot with DBI and a dbd for mysql: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ruby rdoc libdbi-ruby libdbd-mysql-ruby && wget [http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz) && tar -xzvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz && cd rubygems-0.8.11 && sudo ruby setup.rb && sudo gem install ruport ---
**Author:** ![jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jansenh)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-problem-rdoc-ruport-from-gem/54090/5 "2006-02-22T22:29:42Z")
“jansenh” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > - apt-get installed ruby-1.8.3 > - manually installed rubygems-0.8.11.tgz > - gem install rubygems-update > > and my gem is (gem -v) 0.8.11 > > HELP! Unfortunately, Debian’s distribution of ruby kinda sucks. What they’ve done is taken the ruby source – that thing usually accepted as “standard ruby” – and chopped it up into nearly 30 packages. You’ve installed only one: ruby. There’s been much discussion/cursing about this here before. I recommend installing all these packages to save you further grief down the line. To find them, install the grep-dctrl package and do: grep-dctrl -s Binary ruby-defaults /var/lib/apt/lists/\*Sources (Note that for this to work, you’ll need a deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list . e.g.: deb-src [Index of /debian](http://http.us.debian.org/debian) unstable main contrib non-free Don’t forget to run `apt-get update’ if you add this line.) ---
**Author:** ![jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jansenh)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-problem-rdoc-ruport-from-gem/54090/6 "2006-02-24T18:46:22Z")
On 2/22/06, Gregory B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: ---
**Author:** ![jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jansenh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jansenh)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-problem-rdoc-ruport-from-gem/54090/7 "2006-02-24T18:46:22Z")
On 2/22/06, Gregory B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > have tried to gem rdoc as well, --remote… Then gem says: “could > > > not > > > find rdoc in repository”. > > It’s just sudo gem install rdoc. whoops! sudo apt-get install rdoc