Error installing Nokogiri 1.5.0 with rails 3.1.0 and ubuntu

Posted on Feb 19, 2022

Question

Here is the error running bundle install vendor/gems on server:

Installing nokogiri (1.5.0) with native extensions
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
    /home/dtt/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby extconf.rb

checking for libxml/parser.h… no

libxml2 is missing. please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for help with installing dependencies.

*** 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.

Provided configuration options: –with-opt-dir –without-opt-dir –with-opt-include –without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include –with-opt-lib –without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib –with-make-prog –without-make-prog –srcdir=. –curdir –ruby=/home/dtt/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby –with-zlib-dir –without-zlib-dir –with-zlib-include –without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include –with-zlib-lib –without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib –with-iconv-dir –without-iconv-dir –with-iconv-include –without-iconv-include=${iconv-dir}/include –with-iconv-lib –without-iconv-lib=${iconv-dir}/lib –with-xml2-dir –without-xml2-dir –with-xml2-include –without-xml2-include=${xml2-dir}/include –with-xml2-lib –without-xml2-lib=${xml2-dir}/lib –with-xslt-dir –without-xslt-dir –with-xslt-include –without-xslt-include=${xslt-dir}/include –with-xslt-lib –without-xslt-lib=${xslt-dir}/lib

Gem files will remain installed in /vol/www/emclab/releases/20111104001151/vendor/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/nokogiri-1.5.0 for inspection. Results logged to /vol/www/emclab/releases/20111104001151/vendor/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/nokogiri-1.5.0/ext/nokogiri/gem_make.out An error occured while installing nokogiri (1.5.0), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that gem install nokogiri -v '1.5.0' succeeds before bundling.

You can skip this part. The error message is pretty much self explanatory, but the website requires a few more words explaining the code.

Any thoughts?

Answer

You need to have all the necessary libraries installed on your machine. When you installed RVM , it should have listed this for you. On the current version of rvm, you can run rvm requirements to see the exact list. Right now, that list is:

sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion