Bugs item #26540, was opened at 2009-07-07 01:08 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=575&aid=26540&group_id=126
Category: RubyGems installer (setup.rb) Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Nathan Zook (anoldhacker) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: 1.3.4 with ruby1.9 on Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64 fails Initial Comment: :~/work/rubygems-1.3.4# ruby1.9 setup.rb Installing RubyGems Installing gem executable Removing old source_cache files Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri Installing rubygems-1.3.4 ri into /usr/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.0/doc/rubygems-1.3.4/ri ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) invalid mbstring sequence # This is from the Universe repository ~/work/rubygems-1.3.4# ruby --version ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-25 revision 14709) [x86_64-linux] ~/work/rubygems-1.3.4# ruby1.9 -v setup.rb >output 2>&1 # output.gz attached ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Luis Lavena (luislavena) Date: 2009-07-07 01:11 Message: I would say that you're trying to install an old, unstable version of Ruby 1.9 (1.9.0) The stable and recommended version for 1.9 line is 1.9.1-p129. I would recommend installing 1.9.1 at least, but leave this open for other to suggest better solutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=575&aid=26540&group_id=126 _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers