Krita, Ruby and Slackware

[John R. Culleton]

On Friday 12 May 2006 03:12, Jusa Ojanperä wrote:
> John R. Culleton kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai 11 toukokuu
> 2006
>
> 22:15):
> > I have never had much luck with Krita on my Slackware Linux
> > system. Today I was playing with it once again and I got the
> > message "unknown interpreter: Ruby." A little googling around
> > showed that Slack doesn't have Ruby. So I downloaded Rubby and
> > did the usual ./configure, make, make test and make install routine.
> > Unfortuntely Krita still doesn't find Ruby. But if I put
> > ruby --help
> > n a command line it executes OK.
> >
> > Do I have to reboot? Recompile Krita? What?
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running Slackware current with KDE 3.5.2 and Koffice 1.5 compiled from
> source. As Boudewijn said Slackware does not split packages into devel and
> runtime and does not have ruby installed by default so I have installed it
> from source also.
>
> When you install ruby using configure, make, make install it gets installed
> to /usr/local, unless you use different --prefix when installing, and if I
> remember correctly (been years since I have actually installed Slackware,
> been using swaret (http://swaret.sourceforge.net) to upgrade)
> /etc/ld.so.conf does not have /usr/local/lib in it by default. You could
> try
> adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf so that linker finds ruby, running
> ldconfig and then try to compile Krita/Koffice again. Oh, and when
> configuring Krita/Koffice look if it founds ruby.
>
> Of course if you already know all this and tried it, then I can not help
> you any further. :)
>
> 	-Jusa-
>
> PS. Thank you to all Krita developers, keep up the good work, 1.5 is great!
> PS2. If I am talking complite nonsense it is only because I just woke up.
> :)

I did what you suggested, adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.conf
I ran ldconfig
I ran ./configure in /usr/local/koffice. I still get the same
message. I checked the version of ruby and it is 1.8.4.

So once again I will give up on Krita.

BTW I am sure Ruby is a fine scripting language, but something
like Perl might make life easier for end users like myself. Even
Python would be more universal.  

-- 
John Culleton
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