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Ruby Installing Rails on Mac

Phuc Nguyen
Phuc Nguyen
9,958 Points
Posted by Phuc Nguyen
Phuc Nguyen
9,958 Points

Cannot install Ruby 2.3.1

Hi Jay

I hit this error "Error running 'requirements_osx_brew_libs_install automake', " as I tried to install ruby 2.3.1. Could you please help me out? I'm using the latest macOS Sierra. I did tried to google a few places and tried a few things but there's no proper answer to this. Please see the detail of the notification in the text below.

Many thanks

Phuc

------> ERROR MESSAGE AFTER PASTING THE COMMAND "rvm install 2.3.1"

Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
No binary rubies available for: osx/10.12/x86_64/ruby-2.3.1.
Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm help mount' to get more information on binary rubies.
Checking requirements for osx.
Installing requirements for osx.
Updating system.........
Installing required packages: automake...
Error running 'requirements_osx_brew_libs_install automake',
showing last 15 lines of /Users/nhp/.rvm/log/1489553146_ruby-2.3.1/package_install_automake.log
++ case "$1" in
++ [[ -t 1 ]]
++ return 1
++ printf %b 'There were package installation errors, make sure to read the log.

Try `brew tap --repair` and make sure `brew doctor` looks reasonable.

Check Homebrew requirements https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Installation\n'
There were package installation errors, make sure to read the log.

Try `brew tap --repair` and make sure `brew doctor` looks reasonable.

Check Homebrew requirements https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Installation
++ case "$_system_version" in
++ return 1
Requirements installation failed with status: 1.
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

The output includes a suggestion to try running two commands:

Try `brew tap --repair` and make sure `brew doctor` looks reasonable.

Can you try those, and post the output here?

After that, per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16473115/error-running-requirements-osx-brew-libs-install-on-mac-10-7, try running brew install automake. Then try running your rvm install command again.