# Once again I'm wasting my time with CentOS: gem install won't work **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 9, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/once-again-im-wasting-my-time-with-centos-gem-install-wont-work/134330 "2008-04-09T21:41:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/once-again-im-wasting-my-time-with-centos-gem-install-wont-work/134330/1 "2008-04-09T21:41:09Z")
[root@free rubygems-1.1.0]# vi README [root@free rubygems-1.1.0]# ruby setup.rb ./lib/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- rdoc/rdoc (LoadError) from ./lib/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’ from setup.rb:48 [root@free rubygems-1.1.0]# I’m following the README, and it fails as above. Can someone make a suggestion other than “use some Linux distro which is less tirdy”? ---
**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/once-again-im-wasting-my-time-with-centos-gem-install-wont-work/134330/2 "2008-04-09T21:49:59Z")
Xeno C. wrote: Never mind, I’ve got it… ---
**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/once-again-im-wasting-my-time-with-centos-gem-install-wont-work/134330/3 "2008-04-10T14:33:50Z")
Em Wednesday 09 April 2008, Xeno C. escreveu: > > suggestion other than “use some Linux distro which is less tirdy”? > > Never mind, I’ve got it… Could you share your solution? ## Thanks, ## Davi V. E-mail: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid MSN : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid GTalk : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Skype : davi vidal YIM : davi\_vidal ICQ : 138815296 ---
**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/once-again-im-wasting-my-time-with-centos-gem-install-wont-work/134330/4 "2008-04-10T19:16:06Z")
Davi V. wrote: > > > I’m following the README, and it fails as above. Can someone make a > > > suggestion other than “use some Linux distro which is less tirdy”? > > > Never mind, I’ve got it… > > Could you share your solution? > > Thanks, > yum install ruby-rdoc, as the other person also replied. I hope this > helps. Actually though, to get the stuff going I needed required some > yum installs, some tgz installs, and then some gem installs, and one of > the items I really wanted, Mysql, I still couldn’t get anyway because I > am restricted to too early a version of Mysql and Ruby. Sigh. Anyway, > I recommend Debian flavored stuff if you want to do development or small > scale servers with little flavor. If then the operations guys want to > put you on some Redhat crap for their good feeliness, let them do the > extra work. xc ---
**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/once-again-im-wasting-my-time-with-centos-gem-install-wont-work/134330/5 "2008-04-10T20:24:23Z")
Honestly, when I need a reasonably modern ruby on a redhat/centos system, I use checkinstall to make a nice little rpm package out of my own compilation of ruby. Does it have all of it’s red-hat dependency checks? No, but that doesn’t really bug me. –Kyle