Missing or outdated gem: ruby-opengl (>=0.40.1)

[Bigjoos]

When i updated from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 all of a sudden Gltail ceased to work throwing that error message everytime and i cannot work out why or whats changed or how to further debug this issue, any pointers ?

Missing or outdated gem: ruby-opengl (>=0.40.1)
Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install rake ruby1.8-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglut3-dev
sudo gem install -y ruby-opengl -r

My gems installed :

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

file-tail (1.0.6)
Author: Florian Frank
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/file-tail
Homepage: http://flori.github.com/file-tail
Installed at: /var/lib/gems/1.8

File::Tail for Ruby

mkrf (0.2.3)
Author: Kevin Clark
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/mkrf
Homepage: http://glu.ttono.us
Installed at: /var/lib/gems/1.8

Generate Rakefiles to Build C Extensions to Ruby

needle (1.3.0)
Author: Jamis Buck
Homepage: http://needle.rubyforge.org
Installed at: /var/lib/gems/1.8

Needle is a Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control container for
Ruby. It supports both type-2 (setter) and type-3 (constructor)
injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic nature of Ruby to
provide a rich and flexible approach to injecting dependencies.

net-ssh (2.2.1, 1.1.4)
Authors: Jamis Buck, Delano Mandelbaum
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh
Homepage: http://github.com/net-ssh/net-ssh
Installed at (2.2.1): /var/lib/gems/1.8
(1.1.4): /var/lib/gems/1.8

Net::SSH: a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol.

net-ssh-gateway (1.1.0, 1.0.1)
Author: Jamis Buck
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh-gateway
Homepage: http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org/gateway
Installed at (1.1.0): /var/lib/gems/1.8
(1.0.1): /var/lib/gems/1.8

A simple library to assist in establishing tunneled Net::SSH
connections

rake (0.9.2)
Author: Jim Weirich
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rake
Homepage: http://rake.rubyforge.org
Installed at: /var/lib/gems/1.8

Ruby based make-like utility.

ruby-opengl (0.60.1)
Authors: Alain Hoang, Jan Dvorak, Minh Thu Vo, James Adam
Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-opengl
Homepage: http://ruby-opengl.rubyforge.org
Installed at: /var/lib/gems/1.8

OpenGL Interface for Ruby

spruz (0.2.13)
Author: Florian Frank
Homepage: http://flori.github.com/spruz
Installed at: /var/lib/gems/1.8

Useful stuff.

LIke i say i have no idea where to look and i cannot find any information on it either.

[eholzbach]

I cant get it to run on FreeBSD because of the same issue. If I comment out the recovery error in Fudge-gltail-9d2b843/lib/gl_tail.rb it produces the following error:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-opengl-0.60.1/lib/glut.so: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-opengl-0.60.1/lib/glut.so: Undefined symbol "glutStrokeMonoRoman" - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-opengl-0.60.1/lib/glut.so (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:55:in require' from ../bin/../lib/gl_tail.rb:29 from ../bin/gl_tail:77:inrequire'
from ../bin/gl_tail:77

Current installed gems:

chipmunk (5.3.4.5 ruby)
file-tail (1.0.7 ruby)
gltail (0.1.8 ruby)
mkrf (0.2.3 ruby)
needle (1.3.0 ruby)
net-ssh (2.2.1 ruby, 2.1.4 ruby, 1.1.4 ruby)
net-ssh-gateway (1.1.0 ruby)
rake (0.9.2.2 ruby)
ruby-opengl (0.60.1 ruby)
ruby-termios (0.9.6 ruby)
tins (0.3.5 ruby)

[j0ney3]

@respite same issue as yours on Ubuntu latest...

[c-schmitz]

Same here. Please let us know if you find a workaround.

[c-schmitz]

This pull request fixed the issue for me:

#20

I downloaded the fork from https://github.com/petersondrew/gltail