No worries. Was able to get it to work with sudo apt-get install rcov Cheers Ikenna
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ikenna Nwaiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:42 AM Subject: error installing rcov gem on ubuntu 7.1 To: [email protected] I am running Ubuntu 7.1 and getting the following error when trying to install rcov. What do i do? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo gem install rcov Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux) 1. rcov 0.8.1.2.0 (mswin32) 2. rcov 0.8.1.2.0 (ruby) 3. rcov 0.8.1.1.0 (ruby) 4. rcov 0.8.1.1.0 (mswin32) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation > 2 Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. ruby extconf.rb install rcov extconf.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError) from extconf.rb:1 Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.1.2.0 for inspection. Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.1.2.0/ext/rcovrt/gem_make.out [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Ikenna C. Nwaiwu Linkedin: Ikenna Nwaiwu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

