Hi Carol, Yes, this is why we recommend using RVM as noted here: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Meetings/2013-07-18#Ruby_on_Linux
The default Ruby on Ubuntu is fairly crippled. If you have RVM, you might need to do source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm to use RVM properly On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Carol Sanders <[email protected]>wrote: > On 07/18/2013 07:32 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just completed the Vagrant route alone on my laptop, running Ubuntu. > > > Great. Can you let me know your Ubuntu version (Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit?) so I > can add it to "tested on"[1]? > > Željko > -- > 1: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-07-18#Setup_virtual_machine > > > _______________________________________________ > QA mailing > [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa > > The install instructions to setup your environment do not work with > Ubuntu 13.04. > Below are the error messages I received when attempting to setup my > environment on two different Ubuntu 13.04 installations. > Is it necessary for me to make my Ruby installation unstable according to > Debian in order to have the required test environment? > > :~/browsertests$ gem update --system > ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError) > gem update --system is disabled on Debian, because it will overwrite > the content of the rubygems Debian package, and might break your Debian > system in subtle ways. The Debian-supported way to update rubygems is > through apt-get, using Debian official repositories. > If you really know what you are doing, you can still update rubygems by > setting the REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM environment variable, but please > remember that this is completely unsupported by Debian. > carolsand@casubuntu-lt:~/browsertests$ gem install bundler > Fetching: bundler-1.3.5.gem (100%) > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) > Permission denied - /var/lib/gems > > carolsand@casubuntu-lt:~/browsertests$ sudo gem install bundler > Fetching: bundler-1.3.5.gem (100%) > Successfully installed bundler-1.3.5 > 1 gem installed > Installing ri documentation for bundler-1.3.5... > Installing RDoc documentation for bundler-1.3.5... > carolsand@casubuntu-lt:~/browsertests$ bundle install > Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.......... > Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.. > Installing rake (10.1.0) > Installing builder (3.2.2) > Installing ffi (1.9.0) > Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native > extension. > > /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb > /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot > load such file -- mkmf (LoadError) > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' > from extconf.rb:4:in `<main>' > > > Gem files will remain installed in > /home/carolsand/.bundler/tmp/31864/gems/ffi-1.9.0 for inspection. > Results logged to > /home/carolsand/.bundler/tmp/31864/gems/ffi-1.9.0/ext/ffi_c/gem_make.out > > An error occurred while installing ffi (1.9.0), and Bundler cannot continue > . > Make sure that `gem install ffi -v '1.9.0'` succeeds before bundling. > carolsand@casubuntu-lt:~/browsertests$ > > > Thank you, > > Carol > > _______________________________________________ > QA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa > >
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