> From: mpclarkson / aspire-design.com [mailto:mpclarkson@aspire-
> Hi,
>  
> I have tried two different linux versions. I am now working on my
> Aspire
> One netbock using Linpus which is based on Fedora 7 i think.

My experience is entirely with Ubuntu so if I'm wrong I apologize

> Anyhow I have managed to install ruby okay. rubygems fails to load I
> get
> the error message below. I think its something to do with the librarys.
> 
> Any help anyone? it must be something be very simple.
> 
> [user@localhost rubygems]$ ruby setup.rb
> ./rubygems.rb:8:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems/defaults
> (LoadError)
>         from ./rubygems.rb:8
>         from setup.rb:24:in `require'
>         from setup.rb:24
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Two things:
1) What version of ruby are you using? If you are using 1.9+ it is no longer
necessary to require rubygems before requiring a gem.  You can check your 
version with ruby --version
2) Are you installing from source or through the package manager?  If
Fedora is like Ubuntu, you actually install ruby and rubygems separately.
(My guess would be: yum install rubygems).
If you are installing 1.8.7 from source you will need to install rubygems
separately as well.  See http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/.

Hope this helps!