>>> More newbie problems! >>> I am trying to get ruby running on my 770. I downloaded the tar file and >>> installed it in /var/lib/install/usr. I created a .profile that >>> added that >>> directory to the PATH. After rebooting the 770, it does not seem to be >>> working properly. Here is my .profile: >> >> This may not be directly related, but you are making life hard for >> yourself installing things where they shouldn't be. It looks like >> you've been reading the (very very) old packaging instructions. >> Things are no-longer installed under /var/lib/install. Instead they >> are installed in the usual location /usr/bin and so on. This makes >> life easier when building things and also means the end user can >> update the binaries that come pre-installed. > > It's still not working for me. I logged in as root (sudo gainroot) > and did this: > cd /usr > tar zxvf /media/mmc1/ruby-1.8.4.nok770d.tar.gz > > I then rebooted the computer. I just grabbed the archive to take a look. My apologies, you were following the instructions in the archive to install it under /var/lib/install/. This is the way programs were installed on the very first version of the 2006 OS. You may therefore find that it won't work when installed under /usr as is the current method. I would try it as is though before re-installing it. Check that the files it installed under /usr/bin (ruby is one of them) have execute permissions. This may be the cause of your current problem. If ruby is unwilling to run from /usr (as it expects certain hard-coded paths for example), install it to /var/lib/install as you had it before and symlink the binaries in /var/lib/install/bin to /usr/bin. I think finding a more up to date version of ruby would be the best bet though. Or asking the people at Rubyforge, where I think your version came from, to remove the --prefix=/var/lib/install/usr they used with configure. Simon
