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Debian Ubuntu Hints
This page is migrated from the old sup wiki. Much of this page is probably outdated and not applicable to sup since v0.13.
There is a Debian package for Sup called "sup-mail". Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) offers this package in the universe repository. This installs Sup 0.8.1; you can also install Sup 0.9 using the deb from the newer Lucid repository. For older versions of Ubuntu (or newer versions of Sup), you'll have to use Ruby Gems or install by hand.
Tested so far on: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
It is best to install gems from source, rather than using aptitude. As explained in the Ubuntu community wiki for installing Rails
- which also has gems as a prerequisite - if you do not, then aptitude and gems conflict horribly.
To install gems from source:
sudo aptitude install ruby-full build-essential
# To get the latest version, see http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/38646/rubygems-1.2.0.tgz
tar -zxvf rubygems-1.2.0.tgz
cd rubygems-1.2.0/
sudo ruby setup.rb
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem
sudo gem update --system
Then to install sup:
# We need this extra package
sudo aptitude install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
sudo gem install sup
sup
When I tried to run sup following the recent instructions it gave me the following error:
$ sup
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:578:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem hoe (>= 1.7.0) (Gem::LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:134:in `activate'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:49:in `gem'
from /usr/bin/sup:18
The solution is simple, install hoe:
sudo gem install hoe
You're done :).
Simply:
sudo aptitude install sup-mail
sup-mail
There's an open bug about it which suggests to install libncurses-ruby1.8 from this repository.
In order to run Sup and to build all the gems at install time, you will probably need the following packages installed:
- libcurses-ruby
- libncurses-ruby
- librmail-ruby (In Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 that package doesn't exists, use librmail-ruby1.8 instead)
- ruby
- ruby1.8-dev (in order to build the required gems)
- rubygems
Note that if you install Sup via Ruby Gems, by default all binaries will be places in /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/, and by default that is NOT in your path. You will have to add that to your path if you want to run Sup, or explicitly type /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sup every time.
I installed sup via gem today on my machine (Ubuntu 7.10.), there was no need to add sup to the PATH. (in Ubuntu 8.04 neither) Installing was done by:
sudo aptitude install libncurses-ruby
sudo aptitude install libncurses5-dev
sudo gem install sup # And Y to all questions
Using Bleeding-edge Sup on Ubuntu (covers Ubuntu 8.10)
Additionally to the above, I had to do this:
sudo gem install echoe
sudo gem install hoe
sudo aptitude install libopenssl-ruby
sudo aptitude install uuid-dev # for xapian
And as mentioned above, /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/ was not in my PATH (and confusingly, there is a different package called "sup" available via aptitude, which is not what you want).
Here's what I needed to do on Ubuntu 10.10:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xapian-backports/xapian-1.2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ruby ruby-dev rubygems libncurses-ruby libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev librmail-ruby1.8 git-core build-essential libxapian22 libxapian-ruby1.8
sudo gem install trollop gettext lockfile mime-types ncursesw
git clone git://gitorious.org/sup/mainline.git sup
cd sup
ruby -I lib bin/sup
I just tried one of the tricks already listed above for a debian install; worked for me:
sudo apt-get install sup-mail
I had a bit of difficulty getting non-ASCII UTF-8 characters to display correctly, and sup was complaining about ncursesw being unavailable.
Because I don't need a cutting-edge ruby environment on this
machine, I installed the Ubuntu packaged rubygems, then used that
to sudo gem install ncursesw (IIRC I needed install
libncursesw5-dev as well).
The final change was to manually edit /usr/bin/sup-mail and add the instruction "require 'rubygems'" on the second line, to allow sup-mail to pick up the installed gem.