# Installation issues - rails non-existant **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 26, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-issues-rails-non-existant/107847 "2007-06-26T20:31:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![khaja](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@khaja](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/khaja)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-issues-rails-non-existant/107847/1 "2007-06-26T20:31:27Z")
So, I installed ruby1.8 and gems via apt-get on Debian Etch and typed the usual “gem install rails --include-dependencies”. Got a success message in the process and proceeded to install the postgresql-driver to connect to the database via “gem install postgres”. I had forgotten to get the development-packages, though (which yielded a lot of errors but told me that the install was successful?), a quick “apt-get install ruby1.8-dev postgres-dev” solved it. Only that the messages in-between now stated after the “make install”-part that there was nothing to do, but the install was successful (again). IRB and a “require ‘postgresql’” stated, however, that there was no such thing as this adapter. To see if that was really so, I wanted to create a quick scaffold by using “rails test”… only to be told that there’s no such thing as a file named “rails”. Nor was “find” able to locate one. Now, here I am, a tad frustrated because the documents regarding this error speak of directories which do not exist on my system… ---
**Author:** ![khaja](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@khaja](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/khaja)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-issues-rails-non-existant/107847/2 "2007-06-26T21:13:57Z")
Nevermind, fixed it myself.