[augeas-devel] Can't install the ruby-augeas gem

[Matthew Palmer]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:59:20AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:16:53PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:15:04AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > But anyway, don't install the gem, use the Debian package instead.
> > The package from squeeze will install cleanly on Lenny.  Gems are
> > 18 kinds of evil.
> 
> You mean force install it by ignoring dependencies?  Because it
> certainly doesn't install cleanly as is; it wants newer libc6, as
> usual:

Actually, the version of libaugeas0 from squeeze wants newer libc6, not
libaugeas-ruby1.8.  That's a whole other kettle of fish, but I'd be (have
already been) rebuilding augeas for lenny long before I started installing
stuff from tarball, but hey, it's your system, not mine.

- Matt