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    copied!<p>I've just moved over to Ubuntu 8.10 as my dev box; it's my first serious foray into Linux as a daily-use OS, and I'm having a hard time getting Rails going. I have followed a number of tutorials which all seem to work fine, but when I try and use gem install or gem update on anything, I get an error that looks like this:</p> <pre><code>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/spec_fetcher.rb:1 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/update_command.rb:5 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:167:in `load_and_instantiate' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:88:in `[]' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:144:in `find_command' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:131:in `process_args' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:102:in `run' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:58:in `run' from /usr/local/bin/gem:21 </code></pre> <p>I have (as recommended in the tutorials) installed zlib, zlib1g, and zlib1g-dev. I've even found a few tutorials on this particular problem (all for flavors other than mine, however) but they didn't help.</p> <p>I'm on Ubuntu 8.10, ruby version 1.8.8dev gem version 1.3.2</p> <p>I've tried reinstalling ruby and gems each and separately, to no avail.</p>
 

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