# Seg fault when installing Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 19, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seg-fault-when-installing-rails/114942 "2007-09-19T01:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seg-fault-when-installing-rails/114942/1 "2007-09-19T01:11:38Z")
Ubuntu Fiesty root@joehost:/home/joe/tmp/rubygems-0.9.4# gem install rails –include-dependencies Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-linux] Aborted root@joehost:/home/joe/tmp/rubygems-0.9.4# Any idea why? Any super-secret Ruby / RubyGems / Rails dependencies I should know about? ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seg-fault-when-installing-rails/114942/2 "2007-09-19T04:33:27Z")
On Sep 18, 2007, at 19:11 , Jarrod M. wrote: > Any idea why? Did you install the ruby-dev package? – Mitch ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seg-fault-when-installing-rails/114942/3 "2007-09-19T07:39:25Z")
Mitch P. wrote: > On Sep 18, 2007, at 19:11 , Jarrod M. wrote: > > > Any idea why? > > Did you install the ruby-dev package? > > – Mitch Are you referring to liberuby and liberuby-dev? Yes. To no avail. I also installed build-essential and autoconf. E ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seg-fault-when-installing-rails/114942/4 "2007-09-19T15:04:00Z")
On Sep 19, 2007, at 01:39 , Jarrod M. wrote: > Are you referring to liberuby and liberuby-dev? Yes. To no avail. I > also > installed build-essential and autoconf. There’s another one missing then - but I can’t find my debian notes, all I have is OS X argh! If I find them, I’ll send them over. There was a tutorial on the web that mentioned all the packages that were needed for rails to work properly on debian, will look for that URL too. – Mitch ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seg-fault-when-installing-rails/114942/5 "2007-09-19T17:49:51Z")
Mitch P. wrote: > On Sep 19, 2007, at 01:39 , Jarrod M. wrote: > > > Are you referring to liberuby and liberuby-dev? Yes. To no avail. I > > also > > installed build-essential and autoconf. > > There’s another one missing then - but I can’t find my debian notes, > all I have is OS X argh! If I find them, I’ll send them over. There > was a tutorial on the web that mentioned all the packages that were > needed for rails to work properly on debian, will look for that URL too. > > – Mitch Thanks for the info. I’ll try some more Googling. There are Ruby and RubyGems packages of course, but only Ruby 1.8.5, and the RubyGems one is broken I’ve heard. So I’m trying to install everything by building from source. E ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seg-fault-when-installing-rails/114942/6 "2007-09-19T18:27:58Z")
I gave up on rails with ubuntu for precisely this reason. Good luck… I’ll be watching for a resolution on this. ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seg-fault-when-installing-rails/114942/7 "2007-09-19T21:16:43Z")
Dave S. wrote: > I gave up on rails with ubuntu for precisely this reason. Good luck… > I’ll be watching for a resolution on this. Yes, Ruby on Ubuntu – strange that it’s so difficult. If I find a reliable answer I’ll follow up.