I’m trying to install rails on Ubuntu 10.10, but get File not found: lib every time. Ruby and Rubygems have been installed correctly. I’ve seen this problem posted all over the web but no solutions work for me. I reinstalled rdoc and I still get the same result.
$ sudo gem install rails
...
Successfully installed rails-3.0.1
24 gems installed
...
Installing ri documentation for builder-2.1.2...
ERROR: While generating documentation for builder-2.1.2
... MESSAGE: Unhandled special: Special: type=17, text="<!-- HI -->"
... RDOC args: --ri --op /var/lib/gems/1.8/doc/builder-2.1.2/ri --title Builder -- Easy XML Building --main README --line-numbers --quiet lib CHANGES Rakefile README doc/releases/builder-1.2.4.rdoc doc/releases/builder-2.0.0.rdoc doc/releases/builder-2.1.1.rdoc --title builder-2.1.2 Documentation
(continuing with the rest of the installation)
...
Installing ri documentation for rails-3.0.1...
File not found: lib
$ rails -v
The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install rails
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