added the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic main universe

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby-full rubygems libxml-ruby libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxslt-ruby libxml2 libxml2-dev

sudo gem install rack rubyforge rake hoe sinatra nokogiri user-choices xml-simple s4t-utils builder commonwatir activesupport hpricot mechanize firewatir

sudo gem install scrubyt

I then restarted the computer (i don’t know why, maybe a Windows habit)

then
sudo gem uninstall hpricot mechanize

sudo gem install hpricot -v=0.6.164

sudo gem install mechanize -v=0.8.5

finished

But i got a problem with one of my scripts:

/usr/local/lib/siteruby/1.8/rubygems/customrequire.rb:31:in `gemoriginalrequire’: no such file to load — firewatir (LoadError)

so I tried installing firewatir again,
sudo gem install firewatir
ERROR: Error installing firewatir:
gemcutter requires RubyGems version >= 1.3.5

which lead me to updating rubygems,
sudo gem install rubygems-update

sudo update_rubygems

All sorted! everything’s working fine.

/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/agents/mechanize.rb:178:in fill_textfield': undefined method[]=’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

I had to do the following to fix the problem,

gem uninstall hpricot mechanize

gem install hpricot -v=0.6.164

gem install mechanize -v=0.8.5

This solved the problem.

Ended up adding,
deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic main universe

to the /etc/apt/sources.list file.

Did an update,

sudo apt-get update

Then I did the following,

sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby-full rubygems libxml-ruby libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxslt-ruby libxml2 libxml2-dev

then,

sudo gem install rack rubyforge rake hoe sinatra nokogiri user-choices xml-simple s4t-utils builder commonwatir activesupport hpricot mechanize firewatir

then finally,

sudo gem install scrubyt

That was it, it worked.

:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby ruby1.8-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package libopenssl-ruby1.8 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libopenssl-ruby1.8 has no installation candidate

Put the comments back on and am back to square one,

:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby ri ruby1.8-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package ri

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

and ran an update

:~$ sudo apt-get update

Then did this again,

:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby ri ruby1.8-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8

But got another problem,

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
libopenssl-ruby1.8: Depends: libruby1.8 (>= 1.8.4) but it is not going to be installed
ri: Depends: ri1.8 but it is not going to be installed
ruby: Depends: ruby1.8 but it is not going to be installed
ruby1.8-dev: Depends: libruby1.8 (= 1.8.6.111-2ubuntu1.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby ri rdoc ruby1.8-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package ri

The error’s detail is following:
sali@sali-laptop:~/NetBeansProjects/PDF7/lishalipdfg/PDF7/lib$ ruby ebay.rb
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/agents/mechanize.rb:234:in find_form_based_on_tag': undefined methodattributes’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/agents/mechanize.rb:232:in each'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/agents/mechanize.rb:232:infindformbasedontag’
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/agents/mechanize.rb:225:in lookup_form_for_tag'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/agents/mechanize.rb:177:infilltextfield’
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/navigationactions.rb:27:in fill_textfield'
from ebay.rb:7
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/shared/extractor.rb:75:ininstanceeval’
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/shared/extractor.rb:75:in initialize'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/shared/extractor.rb:32:innew’
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/shared/extractor.rb:32:in `define’
from ebay.rb:4

Thank you!

eric