Just spent a couple of hours trying to get the heroku command line
installed on a friends Ubuntu box, but still no joy.

Perhaps my mistake was using rvm :(

Are there any good/comprehensive guides?

From a quick google, it seems there are several issues that regularly
bite - openssl, zlib

Or is there a list of gem dependancies?

Currently getting:

no such file to load - mime/types

Thanks,
Chris

sudo aptitude install build-essential bison openssl libreadline6
libreadline6-dev curl git zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev
libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf
libc6-dev ncurses-dev subversion

After that, install rvm, install a ruby, and then install heroku.
Works fine here on Ubuntu 11.04.

Here's what I did to install rvm ...

<<
#Install RVM and ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install curl build-essential libssl-dev libreadline5-dev
bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )
# Add to end of .bashrc file ...
if [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] ; then source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
; fi
# Open a new terminal
type rvm | head -n1 # Should see "rvm is a function"
rvm notes # to make sure of a good install
rvm install 1.9.2 # Installs ruby 1.9.2
rvm --default ruby-1.9.2 # Makes 1.9.2 the default ruby
ruby -v # Should see the 1.9.2 message

Scott

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <nos...@codegnome.org> wrote:

Thanks Scott and Todd - I have passed on Todd's install line to my
friend - hopefully that will resolve the last issues.

Strange that installing the heroku gem did not pull in its
dependancies - I guess thats related to the missing system components.

I should write this up as a blog post.

Thanks,
Chris

http://wp.kimptoc.net/2011/07/installing-heroku-client-on-ubuntu-10-u...

Regards,
Chris