Can't get zabcon to work

[bashman]

Thanks nelsonab, done, but still not working:

ruby zabcon
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- readline (LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
        from ./libs/input.rb:25
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
        from zabcon:35

May be some dependencies missing?

[nelsonab]

There's a dependencies file. That explains what you need to do to install the requisite dependencies. You may also want to update your svn copy. It will now display a somewhat helpful message about missing dependencies. :-)

[bashman]

Hi nelsonab,

I have this output when I run ruby zabcon revision 183 2010-04-21:

/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- readline (LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
        from ./libs/input.rb:25
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
        from zabcon:35

I have ruby version for red hat 5:

ruby --version
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [x86_64-linux]

Zlibs version:

zlibs-1.2.5
ruby-zlib-0.6.0

Ruby gem version:

gem --version
1.3.7

Packages version:

json-1.4.3
parseconfig-0.5.2
highline-1.5.2

Anybody know how to solve this?

Thanks a lot nelsonab, I read your dependencies file but I'll try to update my copy.

[nelsonab]

You are missing the library readline. Which distro are you using? Check to see if there's a readline package, and in addition if there is a readline package for Ruby on your distro. Did you compile Ruby or install it from a package manager? Normally readline is included in Ruby for MS Windows, OpenSuSE and CentOS.

[bashman]

I'm using Red Hat 5.4 and I compiled Ruby.

[nelsonab]

http://snippets.aktagon.com/snippets/57-Solution-to-require-no-such-file-to-load-readline-LoadError-problem

It looks like you will need to adapt the path in the above link for your environment, but that looks to be the basics on compiling readline. I do most of my dev work on CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 which is essentially the same as RHEL 5.4 and 5.5. I just use the ruby rpm's.