I'm running Crunchbang 11 (Debian-based). I'm trying to install Ruby on Rails, like this: gem install rails --version 4.0.0
I get the error "Failed to build gem native extension". My ruby is version 2.0.0p247, my RubyGems is 2.0.0. What's the issue here?
This is the full error output: Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby extconf.rb
creating Makefile
make
compiling atomic_reference.c
linking shared-object atomic_reference.so
make install
/usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 atomic_reference.so /home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.10/lib/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-linux
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.10/lib/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-linux': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-so] Error 1
Gem files will remain installed in /home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.10 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.10/ext/gem_make.out
My
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asked Jul 15, 2013 at 13:47 LonelyWebCrawlerLonelyWebCrawler 2,8544 gold badges36 silver badges57 bronze badges 5 Rails 4.0 needs RubyGem version 2.0.3, Just update your system by using following command gem update --system 2.0.3
answered Jul 15, 2013 at 14:54 shrikant1712shrikant1712 4,19623 silver badges41 bronze badges 6 Run the following command: sudo apt-get install ruby-dev zlib1g-dev liblzma-dev
Then, sudo gem install rails
answered Jan 2, 2019 at 6:34
Syed_ShahiqSyed_Shahiq 5175 silver badges12 bronze badges 2 Just a follow up ... on different solution... it may be that you are on a mac and rails cannot find the right compiler for c headers. just install xcode from apps store / homebrew or go to terminal ... $ xcode-select --install
complete the installation and
agree on the licensing etc, then ... $ sudo gem install rails
answered Nov 1, 2016 at 20:04 mirageglobemirageglobe 1,9911 gold badge20 silver badges25 bronze badges Got the same issue when installing rails with the command "gem install rails -v 5.1.2" on windows7, solved after installing "MSYS2 and MINGW development toolchain" (command ridk install then option 3)..It took a while to finish the installation and then i installed rails without any problem answered Jul 17, 2017 at 15:18
1 For me this helped: sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
answered Oct 22, 2020 at 19:22 IrmaIrma 314 bronze badges 1 I could solve this wayrvm use ruby --install --default
and then try again. gem install rails --no-document
answered Mar 15, 2021 at 23:31 This worked for me: sudo ln -s /bin/mkdir /usr/bin/mkdir
I kept encountering this error when I ran gem install rails -v 5.2.0: make: /usr/bin/mkdir: Command not found
make: *** [Makefile:199: .sitearchdir.-.racc.time] Error 127
make install failed, exit code 2
So I ran this command and it fixed it for me: sudo ln -s /bin/mkdir /usr/bin/mkdir
Originally found:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/64653052 answered Sep 14, 2021 at 17:01 Try sudo gem install rails --version 2.0
to install libraries. answered Sep 29, 2015 at 23:04 For anyone got the error:"Failed to build gem native extension”, while running
sudo gem install rails, and it said somethings about "nokogiri". It is possible because you are using the same ruby version as system is using (for mac user). The solution would be install RVM, use RVM to install another ruby version. So now you have 2 Ruby versions on your machine, RVM will automatically switch to the newly installed version. now, you can run gem install rails without error and without sudo as well. answered
Mar 9, 2018 at 9:46 i'm running elementary os 5 and what i do is. sudo gem update --system
and then try again. sudo gem install rails
answered Nov 12, 2018 at 9:12 On Fedora 30, I ran into this problem
"Failed to build gem native extension". The log error was "gcc: fatal error: cannot read spec file ‘/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1’: No such file or directory". The solution was found here. If you installed all the above, but the extensions would still not compile, you are probably running a Fedora image that misses redhat-rpm-config package. In that case gcc compiler would complain about one of the following:
gcc: error: conftest.c: No such file or directory
gcc: error: /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1: No such file or directory
To solve this, simply run sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config.
answered Jun 15, 2019 at 22:39
NhanNhan 1,3451 gold badge14 silver badges16
bronze badges I had the same error when installing rails, but I solved it by running the command: gem install rails without adding sudo.
cosmoonot 2,1433 gold badges31 silver badges37 bronze badges answered May 3, 2017 at 16:52 1 | 
