Comments on: Installing Compass on Ubuntu

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:51:09 +0000

I’m trying to install compass and it won’t work. it says i need greater than 2.2.0.. but i do. I’m running 2.2.17. COmmand output below..

$ sudo gem install chriseppstein-compass –source=http://gems.github.com/
ERROR: Error installing chriseppstein-compass:
chriseppstein-compass requires haml (>= 2.2.0, runtime)
$ haml -v
Haml/Sass 2.2.17

Any idea what the problem could be?

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:30:58 +0000

@autolico

If I remember… I used haml-edge because the developer indicated there were some components in it (that were missing in haml)

By: autolico

autolico — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:23:11 +0000

Nowadays you can use the normal haml distribution:

sudo gem install haml

Installing haml-edge will cause an error to be thrown when installing compass.

By: viatropos

viatropos — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:29:20 +0000

Thank you very much, this solved my problem. I’ve been trying to get Spree running in production on Slicehost with Ubuntu and this was the problem. Awesome.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:18:29 +0000

Thank you very much!
I found this helpful for getting compass up and running.
However my install was a little different.

Ubuntu 9.10
Only interested in compass (not ruby).
Here is what I did:

apt-get install rubygems

gem sources –add http://gems.github.com/
(because I’ll use it later)

gem install haml

gem install chriseppstein-compass

At this point the the command “compass” wasn’t working.
I had to add “/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin” to /etc/environment

I hope this helps someone else.
Thank you again for the info.

By: Adam DiCarlo

Adam DiCarlo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:32:19 +0000

> sudo gedit /usr/bin/gem

The problem is that the new version of “gem” is installed into /usr/bin/gem1.8 .

So you don’t need to manually patch /usr/bin/gem–you can just do this:

sudo mv /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem