Cannot install wxruby on Leopard

Desktop wxRuby
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I’d like to try wxruby on my MacBook Pro with Leopard (10.5.1)

But I have troubles with gem.

I can see the gem is in rubyforge:

$ gem list wxruby -r

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

wxruby (1.9.2, 1.9.1, 1.9.0)
wxrubylayouts (0.0.3, 0.0.2, 0.0.1)

but when I try to install it:

$ sudo gem install wxruby -r
Password:
ERROR: could not find wxruby locally or in a repository

Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance

2

Hello Claudio,

First off, what version of RubyGems do you have installed? If you have
0.9.3, try updating to 1.0.3 by doing gem update --system, this will
cause
RubyGems to update itself to the latest version of RubyGems, which I
belive
is 1.0.3, and allow you to install wxruby 1.9.2.

L8ers,

Mario S.

3

Hello Mario

First, thanks for your suggestion

First off, what version of RubyGems do you have installed? If you have
0.9.3, try updating to 1.0.3 by doing gem update --system, this will
cause RubyGems to update itself to the latest version of RubyGems, which I
belive is 1.0.3, and allow you to install wxruby 1.9.2.

I had version 1.0.1 of gem, since I had updated it recently.

$ gem --version
1.0.1

but as you suggested, I updated gem as well:

$ sudo gem update --system
Password:
Updating RubyGems…
Updating metadata for 40 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
…
complete
Attempting remote update of rubygems-update
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.0.1
1 gem installed
Updating version of RubyGems to 1.0.1
Installing RubyGems 1.0.1
install -c -m 0644 rbconfig/datadir.rb
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rbconfig/datadir.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/builder.rb
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/command.rb
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/command.rb
… (I omit part of the log) …
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/version.rb
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/version.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/version_option.rb
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/version_option.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems.rb /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb
install -c -m 0644 ubygems.rb /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/ubygems.rb
cp gem /tmp/gem
install -c -m 0755 /tmp/gem
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/gem
rm /tmp/gem
cp update_rubygems /tmp/update_rubygems
install -c -m 0755 /tmp/update_rubygems
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/update_rubygems
rm /tmp/update_rubygems
rm /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/source_cache
Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri…
rm -rf /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-1.0.1
Installing rubygems-1.0.1 ri into
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-1.0.1/ri…
Installing rubygems-1.0.1 rdoc into
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-1.0.1/rdoc…
As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.
Searching $LOAD_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a
while)…
…done.
No library stubs found.
RubyGems system software updated

but installing wxruby shows me the same problem:

$ sudo gem install wxruby -r
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: could not find wxruby locally or in a repository

and strangely the gem version seems not to have changed:

$ gem --version
1.0.1

I add that I’m not behind a firewall (but I have the standard OSX
protections), and I never experimented problems with internet.

4

For now you can try downloading the gem directly and installing it
from the local download.

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35

wxruby-1.9.2-i686-darwin8.8.2.gem (Intel)
wxruby-1.9.2-powerpc-darwin8.10.0.gem (PowerPC)

The gem system sure seems to have gotten flaky over the last year or so.

Sean