Attempting to install Diakonos

[dleigh]

Hi, Based on the happy news in the README that: diakonos runs perfectly well in userspace, such as under ~/usr

I tried (painfully) to install diakonos on my userspace in my shared hosting provider where I have shell access. After much manual copying because of installation failures, I get this error when trying to start diakonos for the first time:

dleigh@citron [~/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8]# ruby ./diakonos.rb
grep: help/*: No such file or directory
./diakonos/display.rb:53:in `attrset': no implicit conversion from nil to integer (TypeError)
                                                                                                from ./diakonos/display.rb:53:in `initialize_display'
                                from ./diakonos.rb:273:in `start'
                                                                        from ./diakonos.rb:538

This was my install string: ruby install.rb -v --prefix /home5/dleigh/usr --dest-dir /home5/dleigh --conf-dir /home5/dleigh/etc

You'll note that this is 0.8.9 because it's the only version that runs under Ruby 1.8, which is what my hosting provider (o2switch) has.

So, if you're still helping with 0.8.9, I'd love to get this working as I'm royally sick of nano and just want a better ncurses editor to work with.

Thanks for any help you can give.

[Pistos]

I can certainly try to help you install Diakonos 0.8.9 with Ruby 1.8, but before (or instead of) trying that: Have you considered using rvm or rbenv to install a newer version of Ruby in your userspace (home dir subtree)? Neither of them requires root access, either.

[dleigh]

No I have not considered that – didn’t know I could. I’ve never used Ruby before, but I suppose I could try and do that first if you think that would be a better solution. I WOULD appreciate getting the latest diakonos if possible. Can you point me to a web page somewhere where I could read up on how to install Ruby in a userspace please?

Many thanks!

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I can certainly try to help you install Diakonos 0.8.9 with Ruby 1.8, but before (or instead of) trying that: Have you considered using rvm or rbenv to install a newer version of Ruby in your userspace (home dir subtree)? Neither of them requires root access, either.

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[Pistos]

Yep, read up at https://rvm.io/ .

[dleigh]

Ok, finally got back to this today. I was making progress until I tried to use rvm to install ruby. I know you're supporting rvm, but based on these messages, am I out of luck? I tried for ruby 2.3, but should I try for an older version or is it the fact that rvm can't determine what kind of system I have specifically? My hosting provider has a cPanel Ruby/Gem installation process but the most recent diakonos gem they have is 0.8.11. (they say that they get their gems from RubyForge - any chance you could put a more recent version on RubyForge?)

rvm install 2.3 Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time. No binary rubies available for: unknown/libc-2.12/x86_64/ruby-2.3.0. Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm help mount' to get more information on binary rubies. df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file or directory Checking requirements for unknown. Install: press any key to continue Install: build-essential libreadline zlib1g libyaml libc6 libgdbm ncurses press any key to continue Requirements installation successful. Installing Ruby from source to: /home5/dleigh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)... ruby-2.3.0 - #downloading ruby-2.3.0, this may take a while depending on your connection... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 13.5M 100 13.5M 0 0 646k 0 0:00:21 0:00:21 --:--:-- 1026k ruby-2.3.0 - #extracting ruby-2.3.0 to /home5/dleigh/.rvm/src/ruby-2.3.0.... cat: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory cat: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory cat: /dev/fd/61: No such file or directory ruby-2.3.0 - #configuring.. Error running './configure --prefix=/home5/dleigh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0 --disable-install-doc --enable-shared', showing last 15 lines of /home5/dleigh/.rvm/log/1466614384_ruby-2.3.0/configure.log [2016-06-22 18:53:10] ./configure current path: /home5/dleigh/.rvm/src/ruby-2.3.0 PATH=/usr/local/jdk/bin:/usr/local/jdk/bin:/usr/local/jdk/bin:/home5/dleigh/perl5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/easy/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home5/dleigh/.rvm/bin:/home5/dleigh/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home5/dleigh/.rvm/bin:~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home5/dleigh/.rvm/bin:~/bin command(4): ./configure --prefix=/home5/dleigh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0 --disable-install-doc --enable-shared checking for ruby... /usr/bin/ruby downloader.rb:180: private methodclass_variable_set' called for Downloader:Class (NoMethodError) checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: in /home5/dleigh/.rvm/src/ruby-2.3.0': configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH Seeconfig.log' for more details There has been an error while running configure. Halting the installation. `

[Pistos]

no acceptable C compiler found

@dleigh If you don't have root access, cannot install new Linux packages, have no C/C++ compiler, and cannot upgrade your Ruby version, then I think that system would not be able to support Diakonos. Are you getting a tremendous deal with that hosting? You may consider getting a VPS, which can be had from any number of providers, world-wide, for very affordable prices (IMO). With a VPS, you have full root access, and can install and change almost anything on your server.

[dleigh]

I feel like it IS a good hosting situation, but it certainly is a shared hosting environment and I'm not prepared to go to a VPS right now. I really don't NEED diakonos, but their terminal environment doesn't have mc and I don't like nano or vi/vim so diakonos looked promising (and I guess I could try version 0.8.11) to make that better.

Interestingly, their cPanel Ruby stuff indicates that 2.1 is their highest Ruby version. Theoretically, if I can get a Ruby app running under their 2.1, what's the most recent version of diakonos that would work under Ruby 2.1?

Thanks!

[Pistos]

Ruby 2.1 should be able to run even the current master branch, so you should be good to go, BUT you also need the curses gem installed. (2.0 has curses built in, the last version to have it as part of the core).

[Pistos]

Closing due to age.