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plessl / wkpdf

A command line HTML to PDF converter for Mac OS X
http://plessl.github.com/wkpdf
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Why can't I install this??? #49

Closed PacoH closed 9 years ago

PacoH commented 10 years ago

I tried the following as per instructions at https://plessl.github.io/wkpdf/:

user$ sudo gem update --system

…
Successfully installed rubygems-update-2.4.1
…

user$ sudo gem install wkpdf

Password:
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'wkpdf' (>= 0) in any repository
ERROR:  Possible alternatives: wkpdf

Checked status:

http://status.rubygems.org/

RubyGems.org Status: UP

Tried:

user$ sudo traceroute rubygems.org

Never completed.

user$ ping rubygems.org

PING rubygems.org (54.186.104.15): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2

user$ gem list -r

…
wkhtmltopdf (0.1.2)
…
wkpdf (0.6.11 universal-darwin)

Tried:

user$ sudo gem install wkpdf -s http://production.cf.rubygems.org/

    Password:
    ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'wkpdf' (>= 0) in any repository
    ERROR:  Possible alternatives: wkpdf

Nothing worked, yet I was able to install wkhtmltopdf without incident.

Now what?

plessl commented 10 years ago

Just to check: You are using Mac OS X, correct?

PacoH commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the swift reply. I am using OS X 10.8.5.

plessl commented 10 years ago

And does 'gem source' report 'https://rubygems.org' as a source?

PacoH commented 10 years ago

Yes. user$ gem source * CURRENT SOURCES *

https://rubygems.org/
plessl commented 10 years ago

I have currently no idea, what could cause this problem. I can't reproduce the problem myself, but somebody also just reported the same problem just today. Maybe it's an intermittent problem with rubygems.org?

PacoH commented 10 years ago

Yes, well that's why I tried using http://production.cf.rubygems.org/ as suggested in a forum post of someone having a similar problem with another package. The OP was able to eventually install it at a later time so I will just wait and try later. Thanks for your help. I'll report back if I succeed.

plessl commented 9 years ago

I appreciate your interest in wkpdf.

Unfortunately I have to inform you that changes in OS X made it difficult for me to provide the installation and usage experience, which I envisioned for wkpdf. Hence, I have stopped the development of the rubygems version of wkpdf in December 2014.

More details on the reasons and some words on how you could contribute to a reincarnation of wkpdf can be found here:

http://plessl.github.io/wkpdf/

Cheers, Christian