Ubuntu – gem install error: “cannot load such file — zlib”

12.10rubyrvm

I'm trying to install ruby on rails from scratch on Ubuntu 12.10. Getting help from this post:

echo "[[ -s '${HOME}/.rvm/scripts/rvm' ]] && source '${HOME}/.rvm/scripts/rvm'" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "[[ -s '${HOME}/.rvm/scripts/rvm' ]] && source '${HOME}/.rvm/scripts/rvm'" >> ~/.zshrc

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

# Then run this in order to make rvm work:
source /home/adige/.rvm/scripts/rvm

# And installed zlib, before ruby:
rvm pkg install zlib

# Last step, installed ruby:
rvm install 1.9.3 --with-zlib-dir=/home/adige/.rvm/usr

But the problem is when i try to install gems i get this error:

adige@adige-LG:~$ gem install rails
ERROR:  Loading command: install (LoadError)
    cannot load such file -- zlib
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
    uninitialized constant Gem::Commands::InstallCommand

I already have these:

curl zlib1g-dev zlib1g libssl-dev build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion pkg-config

So what may be the problem?

Best Answer

In case of anyone's interested, i removed RVMand compiled Ruby from source code, as the official page recommends, then installed rails gem by:

sudo gem install rails

Using sudo is essential.

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