Hi there,

I'm trying to get amaroK installed on my minimalist Slackware 10.2 machine. I know: "minimalist" and "amaroK" might not be intuitively concurrent. Still, I thought I'd give it a whirl.

Of the three mandatory dependencies, I have two successfully installed: kdelibs (required installing qt) and taglib. Ruby, though, is giving me fits during installation.

Here's the error that kills things:

I've googled the hell out of it, but can only seem to find one person who's publicized having the problem and who fixed it. That person made readline and then copied a resultant readline.bundle file into the Ruby install directory. I suppose the installing architecture is a bit different on OS X, that person's machine, from Linux, as I only manage to make a readline.so file (or that's the only one that looks important), which I copied to /usr/local/lib/ alongside the ruby executable in /usr/local/bin. Nothing.

Ruby [I]installed into /usr/local/bin/, and responds to but when I type only , it hangs. I don't imagine it's properly installed.

I've already got some readline libraries installed, so I'm not sure what this one has to do with anything. I know I could likely just grab a package from linuxpackages, but I'd prefer to go manual here.

Anyone have any experience or thoughts?

Thanks,

Daniel

can you post the code around

/home/muraii/temp/ruby-1.8.5-p2/lib/fileutils.rb:1239

I tried parsing that intuitively, as I'm not a ruby hacker in the least, and I can understand the general jist of what it's doing; but I couldn't really do much with it.

For what it's worth, (a) it seems that I've got amaroK working as far as I can tell; and (b) I don't seem to have much need for it, as I have yet to actually use amaroK at all. I think it was one of those "wow, that's a cool app, I think I need it" moments that prompted me to make it harder to install things. That's partially I left Ubuntu and came to Slackware.