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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Mac

hector gonzalez
hector gonzalez
14,109 Points
Posted by hector gonzalez
hector gonzalez
14,109 Points

Problem installing ruby on Debian 7

I used rbenv to install ruby's latest version (2.1.2) but I keep getting this error:

Downloading ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz...
-> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/f22a6447811a81f3c808d1c2a5ce3b5f5f0955c68c9a749182feb425589e6635
Installing ruby-2.1.2...

BUILD FAILED

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965
Results logged to /tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965.log

Last 10 log lines:
/tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965/ruby-2.1.2 /tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965 ~
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965/ruby-2.1.2':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details

BUILD FAILED

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965
Results logged to /tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965.log

Last 10 log lines:
/tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965/ruby-2.1.2 /tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965 ~
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/ruby-build.20140702181541.15965/ruby-2.1.2':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
Kai Aldag
Kai Aldag
Courses Plus Student 13,560 Points

what did you type into terminal?

1 Answer

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Make sure to install pre-reqs

apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libreadline-dev -y

from: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-with-rbenv-on-debian-7-wheezy

p.s. I found this by Googling rbenv debian, it's the first result