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How to install curl development dependencies Ubuntu 20.04

Was trying to run bundle install for a Ruby on Rails project which required gem curb. Here's what happened: gem install curb Fetching curb-0.9.11.gem Building native extensions. This could take a ...
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Cannot get a meaningful response to the command 'gem list '

I know I have gems installed because the response to the command $ gem environment RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.8.23 OK, now I want to know which gems are installed, so I type: $ gem list *** LOCAL GEMS **...
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Problem installing ruby and gems

I just installed ruby using apt-get with the following command: sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full But when I try to do sudo gem install ... it says that I have not installed gems and that I shoud ...
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How do I install Capistrano?

I'm struggling here with no success in order to install capistrano on my Ubuntu dev machine. Here is the list of commands issued: 1) sudo apt-get update 2) sudo apt-get install build-essential git-...
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Can't get "gem" command to work - Why?

Ubuntu 10.10 here. On the command line, I'm trying to do: gem install railsless-deploy I get this message: The program 'gem' can be found in the following packages: * rubygems1.8 * ...
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Rails version not shown post installation

I had installed rubygems 1.8 and further on I had installed the rails 2.0.2 gem. When I tried to view the rails version installed through the command rails -v It didn't work.. I am unable to figure ...
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When to use packages in aptitude versus CPAN/Gems/PyPI?

What's the general rule for when to install a package from the official .deb repositories, versus when to install with the language's package manager? The ones in the upstream repositories are ...
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