Thanks prolific.coder, I can see the rubygems installed.
# aptitude install ruby build-essential libopenssl-ruby ruby1.8-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libopenssl-ruby libopenssl-ruby1.8{a} ruby1.8-dev
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 98 not upgraded.
Need to get 702kB of archives. After unpacking 2200kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe
libopenssl-ruby1.8 1.8.7.72-1ubuntu0.2 [121kB]
Get:2 http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe libopenssl-ruby 4.2
[5008B]
Get:3 http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main ruby1.8-dev
1.8.7.72-1ubuntu0.2 [576kB]
Fetched 702kB in 10s (69.0kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libopenssl-ruby1.8.
(Reading database ... 27583 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libopenssl-ruby1.8 (from
.../libopenssl-ruby1.8_1.8.7.72-1ubuntu0.2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libopenssl-ruby.
Unpacking libopenssl-ruby (from .../libopenssl-ruby_4.2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ruby1.8-dev.
Unpacking ruby1.8-dev (from .../ruby1.8-dev_1.8.7.72-1ubuntu0.2_i386.deb)
...
Setting up libopenssl-ruby1.8 (1.8.7.72-1ubuntu0.2) ...
Setting up libopenssl-ruby (4.2) ...
Setting up ruby1.8-dev (1.8.7.72-1ubuntu0.2) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
# gem -v
1.3.5
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Prolific Coder <[email protected]>wrote:
> I remember seeing this error recently when I did not install ruby1.8-dev
> package.
>
> Try this -
>
> sudo aptitude install ruby build-essential libopenssl-ruby ruby1.8-dev
>
>
> I followed instructions at - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails
> and it always helped me.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:46 PM, dwhitekiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've setting up my ROR environemtn in Ubuntu linux, however, I'm
>> having difficulties when installing the mysql driver:
>>
>> # gem install mysql
>> Building native extensions. This could take a while...
>> ERROR: Error installing mysql:
>> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>>
>> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
>> extconf.rb:10:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
>> from extconf.rb:10
>>
>>
>> Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
>> mysql-2.8.1 for inspection.
>> Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/ext/
>> mysql_api/gem_make.out
>>
>>
>> Not sure how to deal with the last paragraph.
>>
>> I googled about the error and tried the suggested
>> gem install mysql --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/
>> mysql_config
>>
>> but did not work.
>>
>> Please help!
>>
>> D
>>
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