Unable to install gem because of dependency about squib

[andymeneely]

The --prerelease thing is my way of having you be a beta tester for my fix - I'm going to put out an official release (v0.19) now.

[andymeneely]

I'm looking into this - I've noticed something similar before but I haven't found the pattern. Might be a Ruby 3.0 thing. Have you tried upgrading Ruby?

[andymeneely]

@InigoGutierrez Ok it looks like they've fixed their dependency issues since last I checked. Could you do a gem install --prerelease and let me know how it goes? Should install v0.19.0b.

If that doesn't work, do gem uninstall squib gobject-introspection and try again.

[InigoGutierrez]

I can't update ruby since I depend on the Arch Linux repositories.

By gem install -- prerelease I get you mean gem install squib -- prerelease? The first one fails and asks to provide at least one gem. Either before or after gem uninstall squib gobject-introspection (which only uninstalls gobject-introspection since I don't have squib), the result is the same as before without the prerelease flag, save for these differences, which don't seem relevant:

1c1,2
< Building native extensions. This could take a while...
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> Building native extensions with: 'prerelease'
> This could take a while...
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< /usr/bin/ruby -I /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0 extconf.rb
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> /usr/bin/ruby -I /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0 extconf.rb prerelease
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< make DESTDIR\= sitearchdir\=./.gem.20230328-21706-khe2jz sitelibdir\=./.gem.20230328-21706-khe2jz clean
---
> make DESTDIR\= sitearchdir\=./.gem.20230407-5316-4a1fw3 sitelibdir\=./.gem.20230407-5316-4a1fw3 clean
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< make DESTDIR\= sitearchdir\=./.gem.20230328-21706-khe2jz sitelibdir\=./.gem.20230328-21706-khe2jz
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> make DESTDIR\= sitearchdir\=./.gem.20230407-5316-4a1fw3 sitelibdir\=./.gem.20230407-5316-4a1fw3
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Nonetheless, thank you for your time. I will check again once the ruby package at the Arch Linux repositories is updated. I also was able to install the squib library from source, so even if I don't have the executable I at least can run ruby code using it if I specify the local squib installation as a dependency for bundle. I haven't developed anything with ruby before but at least this solution allows making cards. Cool project you have here!

[andymeneely]

Ah, I meant gem install squib --prerelease, or gem install squib --version 0.19.0b would be equivalent. I believe it's not an Arch linux thing - I was able to reproduce it on my mac.

[InigoGutierrez]

😲🤦🤦 That actually worked! I didn't know you could install a newer version of a gem with that. Since I see -- and prerelease in different lines in your previous comment, I thought it was gem install squib -- prerelease, separating prerelease from the arguments by -- as some programs do (like git), and not with --prerelease as a flag, which should have been obvious. My mistake!

So in summary, gem install squib --prerelease is a solution for the broken dependency problem. Thanks!