On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Andrea Campi <andrea.campi / zephirworks.com> wrote: > we released today a new gem I think may be of general interest: > https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-perl > https://github.com/zephirworks/ruby-perl very nice. yet after installing, i get, $ rperl /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ffi-1.0.7/lib/ffi/library.rb:75:in `block in ffi_lib': Could not open library '/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE/libperl.so': /usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE/libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (LoadError) .... $ locate libperl.so /usr/lib/libperl.so /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8 /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8.8 $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.2-ia32:core-4.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-4.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-noarch:languages-3.2-ia32:languages-4.0-ia32:languages-3.2-noarch:languages-4.0-noarch:multimedia-3.2-ia32:multimedia-4.0-ia32:multimedia-3.2-noarch:multimedia-4.0-noarch:printing-3.2-ia32:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Release: 8.04 Codename: hardy thanks for rperl. best regards -botp