Re: [sup-talk] utf8 support on Ubuntu Karmic

[Ian Smith <ismith@MIT.EDU>]

Hi Brian - I believe before installing the ncursesw gem, you need to install
libncurses-ruby (using aptitude).  You may also need libncursesw-dev; I've got
both of those installed on my machine, and I'm honestly not sure which one is
necessary.

Ian

Excerpts from Brian May's message of Sun Apr 11 19:08:28 -0400 2010:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying out sup, and rather like it. Unfortunately, it
> seems very easy
> to crash :-(
> 
> First things though, how do I get utf8 support working properly?
> 
> [Mon Apr 12 08:52:00 +1000 2010] No 'ncursesw' gem detected. Install
> it for wide character support.
> 
> How do I install this on a Ubuntu Karmic system?
> 
> I tried:
> 
> brian@aquitard:~/tree/sup$ sudo gem install ncursesw
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  Error installing ncursesw:
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> 
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
> extconf.rb:23:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
>     from extconf.rb:23
> 
> 
> Gem files will remain installed in
> /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1 for inspection.
> Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1/gem_make.out
> 
> 
> Thanks
-- 
Ian Smith
ismith@mit.edu
http://www.bostonaccess.org
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