I'm runniing Ubuntu Breezy. The distributed version of ruby is 1.8.3 which is incompatible with the current rails. As a result, I'm trying to get things up outside of apt. I have ruby installed - compiled to install to /usr/bin. I'm trying to get rubygems installed, but still not making it there. When I run (as root) ruby setup.rb, from the rubygems-0.9.0 directory, it terminates with hook /software/rubygems-0.9.0/./post-install.rb failed: uninitialized constant Gem::Builder::Package This is further than I've been getting, but still not there. I want to thank those of you for the help you've given so far, and need to ask for some more. Any ideas on how to correct this? tia ---Michael -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.