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Posted by Jonathan Musso
Jonathan Musso
3,760 Points

rbenv ruby installation fail ubuntu

here is the error log

Downloading ruby-2.2.0.tar.gz... -> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/7671e394abfb5d262fbcd3b27a71bf78737c7e9347fa21c39e58b0bb9c4840fc Installing ruby-2.2.0...

BUILD FAILED (Ubuntu 14.04 using ruby-build 20141225-7-g4aeeac2)

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/ruby-build.20150106233051.25615 Results logged to /tmp/ruby-build.20150106233051.25615.log

Last 10 log lines: compiling ossl_x509store.c compiling ossl_engine.c compiling ossl_ocsp.c compiling ossl_config.c compiling ossl_digest.c installing default openssl libraries linking shared-object openssl.so make[2]: Leaving directory /tmp/ruby-build.20150106233051.25615/ruby-2.2.0/ext/openssl' make[1]: Leaving directory/tmp/ruby-build.20150106233051.25615/ruby-2.2.0' make: *** [build-ext] Error 2

not sure what to do as I am a complete noob to git let alone rbenv...

2 Answers

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

After a quick google of "BUILD FAILED (Ubuntu 14.04 using ruby-build 20141225-7-g4aeeac2)" I found this solution.

sudo apt-get install autoconf bison libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm3 libgdbm-dev

It takes quite a while to get used to understand Ubuntu error messages so I usually throw it into google. The community is so large someone has done it before.

This is the site i found the solution on. I hope it works for you!

Goodluck! --Ricky

Jonathan Musso
Jonathan Musso
3,760 Points

Ricky, thank you. It installed the files but when I do ruby -v it still shows the old version.

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

I found this stack overflow question that might help.

You are probably going to need to modify some environment variables to make it work.

Here is the documentation. I think this part will be the most help.

Goodluck! --Ricky

Kevin Lozandier
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Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points
Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

Hi, Jonathan:

I strongly recommend running Thoughtbot's Laptop script. I've used it to set up rubyenv painlessly on new Ubuntu and Mac OS installations frequently.

I also suggest trying out linux-homebrew to install such common things alternatively, though apt-get works just fine out-of-the-box for most things.