[Radiant] possible installation issue

[Tom Cloyd]

I don't want to waste anyone's time, and I myself can be of little or no 
use in relation to this possible issue as I'm too new to all the 
technology involved - Ruby, Radiant, and Kubuntu Linux. But I can sketch 
out the events and possible problem.

I'm running Kubunu 7.10 Linux, and Ruby 1.8.6. A few days ago I 
attempted in install radiant, following the instructions on 
http://radiantcms.org/download/.

I issued the command

% gem install --include-dependencies radiant

Then I tried the next one on that page...
% radiant --database sqlite3 path/to/project

and got an error I couldn't make sense of. I think it was this one...

/usr/bin/gem:23: uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner (NameError)

 From this point on, all attempts to reference rubygems interactively 
got this same error.

Somehow I got onto the #radiantcms irc channel and got some help - I was 
told that it appeared that my rubygems had gone bad.

Since then I have upended the earth trying to get things back to normal. 
Twice I posted to the ruby talk list about this problem, and got nothing 
back. I reinstalled rubygems every way I could think of and learn about. 
Nothing worked.

This morning, someone else posted this identical error message to 
ruby-talk, asking for help. He stated that it happened after he issued 
to his Ubuntu linux the command:

sudo gem update --system

He was told that was a no-no. Reference was made to
 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=452547
 > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/279841

He was told how to fix it, and I followed the instructions, and got back 
my rubygems.

Now...I write because I'm thinking that there may be something in the 
radiant gem install which causes this breakage - either something like 
that "gem update --system" command, or something similar.

I can't check this out. Too ignorant. Maybe someone else will want to.

This was a  nasty mess, and I've been utterly stuck for several days, 
until this morning.

Hope this helps 'the cause'. If not, ignore it.

Now I'm off to see if I can finish the radiant setup, so I can begin 
learning how to use this thing.

t.

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