New admin trying to install on Ubuntu Lucid

[glibdud]

I'm trying my first Diaspora install on an Ubuntu Lucid (10.04 LTS) server, following instructions on the following pages:

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora...nning-Diaspora
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora...ling-on-Ubuntu

The instructions appear to target 10.10 or 11.10, so I'm trying the 10.10. The install of the prerequisite packages went ok, but for the next line is says to run:

wget https://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rubygems/rubygems_1.8.15-1_all.deb -O rubygems.deb && sudo dpkg -i rubygems.deb

When I do that, I get the following:

dpkg: considering removing rubygems1.8 in favour of rubygems ...
dpkg: no, cannot proceed with removal of rubygems1.8 (--auto-deconfigure will help):
 rubygems depends on rubygems1.8 (= 1.3.5-1ubuntu2)
  rubygems1.8 is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding rubygems.deb containing rubygems:
 rubygems conflicts with rubygems1.8 (<< 1.7.2-1~)
  rubygems1.8 (version 1.3.5-1ubuntu2) is present and installed.
dpkg: error processing rubygems.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing rubygems
Errors were encountered while processing:
 rubygems.deb

So why do the instructions have you install rubygems via apt-get, and then download and attempt to install a conflicting version? How should this be resolved?

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[Mohnish]

@glibdud, I faced the same issue today. I was able to fix this with the following:-

1. sudo apt-get remove rubygems
2. Re run the command to install rubygems as given in Diaspora Wiki..

Hope it helps..