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From: Ian Smith <ismith@MIT.EDU>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:30:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271028514-sup-7691@baad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <o2q3c5cf5261004111608q9ac4dd89v1e8c9cf3bf0ee9b3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Brian - I believe before installing the ncursesw gem, you need to install
libncurses-ruby (using aptitude).  You may also need libncursesw-dev; I've got
both of those installed on my machine, and I'm honestly not sure which one is
necessary.

Ian

Excerpts from Brian May's message of Sun Apr 11 19:08:28 -0400 2010:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying out sup, and rather like it. Unfortunately, it
> seems very easy
> to crash :-(
> 
> First things though, how do I get utf8 support working properly?
> 
> [Mon Apr 12 08:52:00 +1000 2010] No 'ncursesw' gem detected. Install
> it for wide character support.
> 
> How do I install this on a Ubuntu Karmic system?
> 
> I tried:
> 
> brian@aquitard:~/tree/sup$ sudo gem install ncursesw
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  Error installing ncursesw:
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> 
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
> extconf.rb:23:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
>     from extconf.rb:23
> 
> 
> Gem files will remain installed in
> /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1 for inspection.
> Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1/gem_make.out
> 
> 
> Thanks
-- 
Ian Smith
ismith@mit.edu
http://www.bostonaccess.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-11 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-11 23:08 Brian May
2010-04-11 23:30 ` Ian Smith [this message]
2010-04-12  0:10   ` Brian May
2010-04-12  0:15 ` Rich Lane
2010-08-06  3:54 ` Brian May

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