Xeno Campanoli / Eskimo North and Gmail wrote: > I am having trouble getting my rails system up. I used the apt-get > install of > thin, as gems install failed. (1) "Doesn't work" or "failed" are not adequate descriptions of a problem. Report the full detail of exactly what you did and what you saw. For more info see http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro (2) Questions about Rails are best asked on a Rails mailing list; it's a very complex piece of software in its own right. But in general: your choice of Ubuntu 10.04 should be fine. "apt-get install ruby-full rubygems" should be all that you need, followed by gem install rails (or whatever). If you want to build gems which have native C dependencies, then also do "apt-get install build-essential" -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.