[Instiki] Problems with Instiki on Kanotix

[Assaph Mehr]

Hi,

> I'm having problems getting Instiki to work on Kanotix (Debian-based
> Linux). I followed the advice given on this page
> http://instiki.org/show/Debian and installed all possible additional
> packages and yet I still get the following error message when I try to
> run it (after I type "ruby instiki.rb" or "ruby instiki"):

The debian packagers (which Ubuntu relies on) have done nasty things
to the Ruby stdlib. Try building Ruby 1.8.4 from the source.

HTH,
Assaph