# Installing Rails on CentOS 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 12, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-on-centos-5/117014 "2007-10-12T03:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 12, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-on-centos-5/117014/1 "2007-10-12T03:10:55Z")
I’m running CentOS 5. So far I’ve downloaded tarballs, ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz and rubygems-0.9.4.tgz. I seemed to have successfully installed ruby, and maybe rubygems I went into rubygems-0.9.4 directory, and typed: ruby setup.rb The first error I get is: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote\_fetcher.rb:4:in `require’: no such file to load – zlib (LoadError) The file remote\_fetcher.rb does exist in the path specified above. I checked to see if the zlib library was installed, it is. Suggestions? I’m willing to use another method to install (yum?), if necessary. === Al ---
**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:** [October 12, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-on-centos-5/117014/2 "2007-10-12T03:29:37Z")
Try yum install zlib zlib-devel ---
**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:** [October 12, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-on-centos-5/117014/3 "2007-10-12T03:57:07Z")
On Oct 11, 6:29 pm, William P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Suggestions? > > > I’m willing to use another method to install (yum?), if necessary. > > === Al I’ve never used CentOS, but here’s a lsit of most commonly forgotten libs to install: [http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse\_thread/thread/bb8c1fdb8837d4b2/](http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/bb8c1fdb8837d4b2/) then the most common stumbling blocks after that are installing MySQL / postgres , readline, SSL and rmagick (i think) ---
**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:** [October 12, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-on-centos-5/117014/4 "2007-10-12T10:13:35Z")
I’m not sure if these will help as I’ve never used centos before: [http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=install\_rails\_on\_centos\_4.3\_slice](http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=install_rails_on_centos_4.3_slice) [http://opensoul.org/2006/8/2/rpms-for-deploying-rails-on-centos](http://opensoul.org/2006/8/2/rpms-for-deploying-rails-on-centos) ---
**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:** [October 13, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-on-centos-5/117014/5 "2007-10-13T01:04:22Z")
The problem I’m stuck with continues to be the zlib error. I’ve yum install zlib zlib-devel successfully. However, I still get the error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote\_fetcher.rb:4:in `require’: no such file to load – zlib (LoadError) Bummer. === Al ---
**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:** [October 12, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-on-centos-5/117014/6 "2007-10-12T05:01:59Z")
> then the most common stumbling blocks after that are installing MySQL / > postgres , readline, SSL and rmagick (i think) For rmagick, be sure to have the ghostscript-fonts.noarch yum package installed first… at least if you’ve compiled imagemagick to use freetype… That one bit me today… yum install ghostscript-fonts.noarch ---
**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:** [October 13, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rails-on-centos-5/117014/7 "2007-10-13T04:45:59Z")
Can you paste in the first 10 or so lines of /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote\_fetcher.rb:4