# Rubygems 0.9.5 install issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 4, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124 "2007-12-04T20:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/1 "2007-12-04T20:08:28Z")
I was attempting to install rubygems on a machine that has, and otherwise runs ruby just fine (installed in /usr/local/). every attempt at installing rubygems ends the same way: after a slew of install -c lines that are fine, I get this ./lib/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem\_origonal\_require’ : no such file to load – socket (LoadError) (there’s more to the error, but that machine has no network right now, and I don’t feel like typing it all 😉 Thanks in advance. –Kyle ---
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/2 "2007-12-04T23:42:03Z")
I just had the exact same problem and solved it by installing/compiling rubygems in a directory that is in my path. I used /usr/local and everything came up fine. jackster Kyle S. wrote: > I was attempting to install rubygems on a machine that has, and > otherwise runs ruby just fine (installed in /usr/local/). > every attempt at installing rubygems ends the same way: > after a slew of install -c lines that are fine, I get this > ./lib/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem\_origonal\_require’ : no > such file to load – socket (LoadError) > > (there’s more to the error, but that machine has no network right now, > and I don’t feel like typing it all 😉 > > Thanks in advance. > > –Kyle ---
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/3 "2007-12-05T20:47:14Z")
John, I’m not sure I follow about compiling it in a directory in your path. You mean copying the installer into /usr/local/bin, then running it? I’ve set my PATH to include /usr/local/bin (which includes ruby) to no avail. Still trying. –Kyle ---
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/4 "2007-12-05T21:13:36Z")
I copied the install files to /usr/local and installed it there and got past this error. jackster Kyle S. wrote: > John, I’m not sure I follow about compiling it in a directory in your > path. You mean copying the installer into /usr/local/bin, then > running it? > > I’ve set my PATH to include /usr/local/bin (which includes ruby) to no > avail. > > Still trying. > –Kyle ---
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/5 "2007-12-06T16:15:58Z")
_cough cough_ apparently there was an error in the ruby install, and it was missing the socket library 🙂 _DOH_ –Kyle ---
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/6 "2007-12-06T21:20:33Z")
Hu. I thought the rebuild with no errors was proof it was good, but socket was still missing. Apparently I had to pass --disable-ipv6 to get the extensions to build clean on this box. The funny thing is, that’s not an option ./configure --help lists. Anyway, not rubygems installed clean. Thanks for the help. –Kyle ---
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/7 "2007-12-06T22:31:40Z")
Kyle…it doesn’t seem to be over for me… My gems finally installed ok and I was able to pull down several gems successfully. But now, I’m trying to run a simple script that uses require “snmp” to poll some networking devices and I’m getting the following error: ./snmp.rb:6: uninitialized constant SNMP (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in gem\_original\_require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require’ from ./snmp.rb:5 I successfully installed the following 3 gems: snmp (1.0.1) snmpscan (0.1) snmptop (0.0.1) Here is the code in snmp.rb: #!/usr/local/bin/ruby require “ruby gems” require “snmp” SNMP::Mangager.open(:Host =\> “172.30.152.1”) do |m| response = m.get([“syslocation.0”, “sysuptime.0”]) response.each\_varbind { |vb| puts “#{vb.name}: #{vb.value}” } end It looks to me like ruby isn’t finding the snmp gem that I installed? Do you have any ideas that might help me now 🙂 thanks jackster Kyle S. wrote: > Hu. I thought the rebuild with no errors was proof it was good, but > socket was still missing. Apparently I had to pass --disable-ipv6 to > get the extensions to build clean on this box. The funny thing is, > that’s not an option ./configure --help lists. > > Anyway, not rubygems installed clean. > > Thanks for the help. > –Kyle ---
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/8 "2007-12-06T16:18:06Z")
so you’re up and running? Kyle S. wrote: > _cough cough_ > apparently there was an error in the ruby install, and it was missing > the socket library 🙂 > _DOH_ > –Kyle ---
**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-install-issue/122124/9 "2007-12-07T16:29:11Z")
Err, without knowing that library, are you sure it’s not require ‘net/snmp’ ? –Kyle