Bingo! Merely removed "facter" from  PREREQS line in  factor-1.5.1/
install.rb

THEN, "sudo ruby install.rb" does a nice install

 ...it installs /usr/bin/facter +   more in /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/
*  .


Thanks! -dmildram

On Sep 1, 11:44 pm, Paul Nasrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 29 Aug 2008, at 07:30, dmildram wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I'm new to puppet and ruby-ignorant, but: I've got 2 Very Similar
> > +virgin systems:
>
> > rhel5$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.2 (Tikanga)
> > rhel5$ ruby -v
> > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-linux]
> > rhel5$ rpm -aq | grep ruby
> > ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
> > ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
>
> > centOS5$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> > CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
> > CentOS5$ ruby -v
> > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-linux]
> > CentOS5$ rpm -aq | grep ruby
> > ruby-libs-1.8.5-5.el5_1.1
> > ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_1.1
>
> > PROBLEM: when I do the same on both systems (after 3 bootstrap cmds
> > below),
> > rhel5 works (ignoring the rdoc error warning) ; centOS5 fails
>
> Does your RHEL 5 box havefacterinstalled already - either by RPM or  
> gem?
>
> Have you got a RUBYLIB env setup on the RHEL 5 box that points to your  
> extractedfacterdir?
>
> Seems that install.rb contains a self-referential prereq tofacter 
> itself - this seems wrong to me, and looks as if it's possibly just  
> come from the puppet install.rb as we don't need the other PREREQS  
> there either.
>
> PREREQS = %w{opensslfacterxmlrpc/client xmlrpc/server cgi}
>
> > 'm guessing something dumb here (like myself),  but I read the FAQ
> > and searched this group.
>
> I think most people end up doing gem installfacteror use dlutter's  
> rpms.
>
> Paul

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