Installing the wordnet gem on OSX, as of February 9 2012

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Getting the wordnet gem, version 0.0.5, working is a little tricky at the moment. It's being rewritten but isn't released yet and the dbd gem is in a similar state.

These steps got it working for me on OS X Lion and MRI 1.8.7. On 1.9.2 convertdb.rb segfaults.

WordNet

Download WordNet from http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/download/current-version/

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

BerkeleyDB

This uses homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/). If you use a different package manager then you will have to adjust the --with-db-dir below.

$ brew install berkeley-db

ruby-bdb gem

$ git clone https://github.com/knu/ruby-bdb
$ cd ruby-bdb
$ git checkout 6aa8054e022fa38055fd441de98b65fd392b8dcb
$ ruby extconf.rb --with-db-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/berkeley-db/5.1.19
$ make
$ make install

wordnet gem

$ gem install wordnet
$ gem which wordnet
$ cd your/wordnet/path
$ ruby convertdb.rb
$ mv ruby-wordnet/ `ruby -e "require 'rbconfig'; print Config::CONFIG['datadir']"`

Using it

$ irb
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'wordnet'
> lex = WordNet::Lexicon.new
> frog = lex.lookup_synsets('frog', WordNet::Noun)
> frog.first.hypernyms.first.overview
  => "amphibian [noun] -- (cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form)" 

There is a typo on line 24.
It is cd ruby-bdb not cd ruby-dbd !

When I ran the line
ruby extconf.rb --with-db-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/berkeley-db/5.3.15

I got the following error:
extconf.rb:109: libdb not found (RuntimeError)
from extconf.rb:87:in `catch'
from extconf.rb:87

This for the extconf.rb file inside ruby-bdb/ext/bdb. Is this right?

@lramach, thanks, I've fixed the typo.

You're getting that error because you are at the latest version of the ruby-bdb repo. You need to git co dbfa77b4b97162dc63e1183dafb213f4c5a07a2e to get the working version. Then extconf.rb will be in the top level directory.

Thanks for the help! But the line 'git co dbfa77b4b97162dc63e1183dafb213f4c5a07a2e' fails. What exactly does 'co' stand for?
Also, I tried the same steps with one of the older versions of ruby-bdb (0.6.5) and that didn't work either!

Ah, sorry, co is a shortcut I have. Replace it with checkout and it should work.

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On 9 mar 2012, at 00:42, Lakshmi ***@***.*** wrote: Thanks for the help! But the line 'git co dbfa77b4b97162dc63e1183dafb213f4c5a07a2e' fails. What exactly does 'co' stand for? Also, I tried the same steps with one of the older versions of ruby-bdb (0.6.5) and that didn't work either! --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/1779371

I tried checkout and there is no extconf.rb in the top level directory. What is the version of ruby-bdb you are using?
Thanks again for the help!

You did git clone https://github.com/knu/ruby-bdb, then cd ruby-bdb and then git checkout dbfa77b4b97162dc63e1183dafb213f4c5a07a2e?

When I do that I get an extconf.rb in the ruby-bdb directory. And a VERSION file that says 0.6.7.

Thats strange! I did the exact same things, yet no extconf.rb file (not in the top directory atleast). The version is correct through.

Ah! I did it again and couldn't see the extconf.rb either. So I double checked and in the original notes I have git checkout dbfa77b4b97162dc63e1183dafb213f4c5a07a2e^

Notice the ^ at the end, it tells git to check out the parent of dbfa77b4b97162dc63e1183dafb213f4c5a07a2e, which is 6aa8054e022fa38055fd441de98b65fd392b8dcb.

I should just have put 6aa8054e022fa38055fd441de98b65fd392b8dcb in the original instructions instead. Sorry!

So the correct is git checkout 6aa8054e022fa38055fd441de98b65fd392b8dcb. Then extconf.rb will be there. And there will be no VERSION file.

Thanks! That worked!
But the ruby extconf.rb --with-db-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/berkeley-db/5.3.15 (I have the 5.3.15 version) resulted in the following error

extconf.rb:109: libdb not found (RuntimeError)
from extconf.rb:87:in catch' from extconf.rb:87 extconf.rb: Leaving directorysrc'

This is strange because extconf.rb doesn't have a line 109! There are only 83 lines of code in the file!

Hmm, odd. And it's not accidentally executing the ext/bdb/extconf.rb file from the erroneous checkout? That one is 162 lines.

Thats not likely since I explicitly specified the location of the extconf.rb file on another run and I got the same error!

Odd indeed. Here's the output I get when I run ruby extconf.rb --with-db-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/berkeley-db/5.1.19:

extconf.rb: Entering directory `src'
extconf.rb:79: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local in PATH, mode 040777
checking for db_version() in -ldb-4.7... no
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creating Makefile
extconf.rb: Leaving directory `src'

The last few lines of my result after running line "ruby extconf.rb --with-db-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/berkeley-db/5.3.15"

checking for db_version() in -ldb... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
extconf.rb:109: libdb not found (RuntimeError)
from extconf.rb:87:in `catch'
from extconf.rb:87

Could it be that the berkeley db hasn't been installed correctly? or maybe the version?

It could very well be that Berkeley DB isn't installed properly. Can you confirm that the Homebrew install is working?

Also check that the version is correct by ls /usr/local/Cellar/berkeley-db/.

It is working. Berkeley-db is installed and the lib/ folder contains the libdb files.

@lramach I had the same error messages as you, and it was caused by my system defaulting to ruby 1.8.7, when I tried with 1.9.3 it worked fine.

Thanks that helped! I was able to install ruby-bdb with ruby version 1.9.2.
However, while trying to install the wordnet gem and setting up the database with 'ruby convertdb.rb' I am getting the following error:
.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:243:in `mkdir': Permission denied - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/ruby-wordnet (Errno::EACCES)
I downloaded and installed WordNet-3.0 in a folder that did not require any permission.
Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks again for all the help!

Did you previously install the WordNet gem as a superuser? Perhaps try an uninstall of WordNet and then try to re-install.

Thanks for that suggestion!
I tried 'sudo ruby convert.rb' and it worked!

I completed all the steps, but when I run

require 'rubygems'
require 'wordnet'
lex = WordNet::Lexicon.new
I get the following error:

TypeError: can't convert Symbol into Integer
from /ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:93:in %' from /ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:93:ininitialize'
from (irb):3:in new' from (irb):3 from /ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/irb:16:in

'

Did anyone encounter this error?

I finally got it working, after making a copy of the ruby-wordnet directory in the '..rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/share/' directory and using 'lex = WordNet::Lexicon.new(WordNet::Lexicon::DEFAULT_DB_ENV, :044)' to create the lexicon!

Thanks for all the help!

Great! Glad to hear you got it working.

I just realized that the 'ruby convertdb.rb' had resulted in a segmentation fault.

convertdb.rb: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0]

-- control frame ----------

c:0001 p:0000 s:0002 b:0002 l:0006d8 d:0006d8 TOP

-- C level backtrace information -------------------------------------------

[NOTE]
You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries.
Bug reports are welcome.
For details: http://www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html

Although wordnet is working fine for some cases, it results in segmentation faults while trying to lookup_synset. I looked around but couldn't find a solution to this. Did anyone face a similar issue? Any help would be appreciated! thanks!

For me this segmentation fault occurred on exit - so the convertdb.rb script executed 'correctly'

Same here. However, when I run my code for looking up synsets (lookup_synsets), it throws me the following error:

.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/lib/wordnet/synset.rb:309:in initialize': uninitialized constant WordNet::Synset::Sync (NameError) from .rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:233:innew'
from .rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:233:in block in lookup_synsets_by_key' from .rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:227:ineach'
from .rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:227:in lookup_synsets_by_key' from .rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/wordnet-0.0.5/lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:214:inlookup_synsets'
from /Aptana Studio 3 Workspace/NLP_Test_0.1/wordnetBasedSimilarity.rb:43:in compareStrings' from /Aptana Studio 3 Workspace/NLP_Test_0.1/wordnetBasedSimilarity.rb:404:in

'
/Aptana Studio 3 Workspace/NLP_Test_0.1/wordnetBasedSimilarity.rb: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0]

-- control frame ----------

c:0001 p:0000 s:0002 b:0002 l:000308 d:000308 TOP

-- C level backtrace information -------------------------------------------

[NOTE]
You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries.

Bug reports are welcome.

Edit: The lookup code works fine while running it from the irb console.

try finishing your code by closing the WordNet::Lexicon connection (e.g. for me this is lex.close)

But you would add the lex.close after the lookup_synsets() line, correct?
My code is failing on the line containing the lookup!