On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:30 PM, pradeep koppaka <bulls66 / gmail.com> wrote: > Robert Klemme wrote in post #986156: >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:31 AM, pradeep koppaka <bulls66 / gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> hi I am trying to install passenger gem. But it is throwing the >>> error.the error is attached in screen shot. >>> I am using >>> rails 2.3.10 >>> ruby 1.8.7 enterprise edition >>> >>> plz gimme solution for this... Its very urgent for me.. >>> >>> Attachments: >>> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/6007/rubyerror1.JPG >> >> What does "ls -ld /usr/lib64/ruby" tell you? ¨Βοετθυσες θαφε >> permissions to access the directory? > Hi this is how I am getting i am new to suse linux plz assist me > deamax@usqlh05d3:~> ls -ld /usr/lib64/ruby > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2011-03-07 08:09 /usr/lib64/ruby Looks OK. > ideamax@usqlh07d2:~> cd /usr/lib64/ruby > ideamax@usqlh07d2:/usr/lib64/ruby> > > ideamax@usqlh07d2:/usr/lib64/ruby> ls -l > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 2011-02-28 22:21 1.8 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-02-28 22:21 site_ruby > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-02-28 22:21 vendor_ruby Now I'm confused. In your screenshot there is a ruby.h in that directory. Now there isn't. I'd say you found the source of the error. You should probably check your ruby installation. How did you install ruby? Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/