Ubuntu rails install fails on zlib

Question

I\'ve just moved over to Ubuntu 8.10 as my dev box; it\'s my first serious foray into Linux as a daily-use OS, and I\'m having a hard time getting Rails going. I have follo

Answer 1

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), i wanted to install ruby 1.9.2 because 1.9.1 is not recommended with Rails. So I downloaded the source for 1.9.2 and unzipped/unarchived it. my source distro is ruby-1.9.2-p0. After I unpacked it, I built zlib as follows:

cd ruby-1.9.2-p0/ext/zlib
ruby extconf.rb
make
sudo make install
sudo gem install rails

that fixed the problem. This is similar to what other people posted above, but not exactly, so I figured I may as well post exactly what I did to get it going.