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* [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic
@ 2010-04-11 23:08 Brian May
  2010-04-11 23:30 ` Ian Smith
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From: Brian May @ 2010-04-11 23:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sup-talk

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
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* Re: [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic
  2010-04-11 23:08 [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic Brian May
@ 2010-04-11 23:30 ` Ian Smith
  2010-04-12  0:10   ` Brian May
  2010-04-12  0:15 ` Rich Lane
  2010-08-06  3:54 ` Brian May
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ian Smith @ 2010-04-11 23:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sup-talk

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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* Re: [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic
  2010-04-11 23:30 ` Ian Smith
@ 2010-04-12  0:10   ` Brian May
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Brian May @ 2010-04-12  0:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ian Smith; +Cc: sup-talk

On 12 April 2010 09:30, Ian Smith <ismith@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Hello,

Thanks for your response.

Unfortunately, on my system, I have both these packages installed :-(
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* Re: [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic
  2010-04-11 23:08 [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic Brian May
  2010-04-11 23:30 ` Ian Smith
@ 2010-04-12  0:15 ` Rich Lane
  2010-08-06  3:54 ` Brian May
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Rich Lane @ 2010-04-12  0:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Brian May; +Cc: sup-talk

Excerpts from Brian May's message of 2010-04-11 19:08:28 -0400:
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
> extconf.rb:23:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
>     from extconf.rb:23

You need ruby-dev for mkmf.
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* Re: [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic
  2010-04-11 23:08 [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic Brian May
  2010-04-11 23:30 ` Ian Smith
  2010-04-12  0:15 ` Rich Lane
@ 2010-08-06  3:54 ` Brian May
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Brian May @ 2010-08-06  3:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sup-talk

On 12 April 2010 09:08, Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> [Mon Apr 12 08:52:00 +1000 2010] No 'ncursesw' gem detected. Install
> it for wide character support.

For some reason I was certain I had resolved this issue. It looks like
it has come back again.

Am using Ubuntu Lucid.
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