# Newbie question: no such file to load -- dbm

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-no-such-file-to-load-dbm/78917>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 10, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-no-such-file-to-load-dbm/78917 "2006-12-10T15:41:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![fangheuschrecke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fangheuschrecke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fangheuschrecke)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-no-such-file-to-load-dbm/78917/1 "2006-12-10T15:41:26Z")

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hi,

I’m a total ruby newbie, so your help would be much appreciated.

I’m using Mac OS X 10.4.8 and just compiled and installed ruby with  
readline. I followed the instructions on

> **[Dan Benjamin](https://danbenjamin.com)**
>
> Dan Benjamin's personal website.

to configure and install readline-5.2, ruby-1.8.5-p2 and rubygems-0.9.0.

Now, if I try to run MouseHole 1.2 I get the following result (it worked  
just fine before I reinstalled readline and ruby):

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/dbm.rb:2:in `require': no such file to load -- dbm (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/dbm.rb:2 from ./lib/mouseHole.rb:20:in `require’  
from ./lib/mouseHole.rb:20  
from bin/mouseHole:4:in `require’  
from bin/mouseHole:4

Any ideas what I can do?

Regards,  
Martin.