I’m an Ubuntu user and wanted to give the Feedzirra gem a shot and play with some RSS feeds today but unfortunately I ran into a few problems — which were CAKE to fix thanks to apt-get and hopefully this post will save you some time!
So, according to paul dix, to get this baby installed you need to run:
io@crazo:~$ sudo gem install pauldix-feedzirra
If that works, please carry on with life and have some funs with RSS. If you get the following error the fix MIGHT be as simple as installing libcurl3-dev:
io@crazo:~$ sudo gem install pauldix-feedzirra
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing pauldix-feedzirra:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install pauldix-feedzirra
checking for curl-config... no
checking for main() in -lcurl... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
--with-curl-dir
--without-curl-dir
--with-curl-include
--without-curl-include=${curl-dir}/include
--with-curl-lib
--without-curl-lib=${curl-dir}/lib
--with-curllib
--without-curllib
extconf.rb:9: Can't find libcurl or curl/curl.h (RuntimeError)
Try passing --with-curl-dir or --with-curl-lib and --with-curl-include
options to extconf.
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/taf2-curb-0.2.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/taf2-curb-0.2.7/ext/gem_make.out
After reading that butt load of output i noticed this line:
extconf.rb:9: Can't find libcurl or curl/curl.h (RuntimeError)
Two flags here: 1. the bitching about curl makes me think i don’t have curl installed and 2. curl.h = header and normally the header stuff is in the dev package so I should try that out.
io@crazo:~$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3-dev
Lots of other stuff was installed with this:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting libcurl4-openssl-dev instead of libcurl3-dev The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: mplayer-skins mplayer libglide2 libggi2 libgii1 libgii1-target-x Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: comerr-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libidn11-dev libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev Suggested packages: libcurl3-dbg krb5-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: comerr-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libidn11-dev libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4568kB of archives. After this operation, 12.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main libssl-dev 0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1 [1981kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main libidn11-dev 1.8+20080606-1 [574kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main libkadm55 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 [151kB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main comerr-dev 2.1-1.41.3-1ubuntu1 [41.6kB] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main libkrb5-dev 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 [92.1kB] Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main libldap2-dev 2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1 [824kB] Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main libcurl4-openssl-dev 7.18.2-1ubuntu4 [904kB] Fetched 4568kB in 24s (184kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package libssl-dev. (Reading database ... 192128 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libssl-dev (from .../libssl-dev_0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libidn11-dev. Unpacking libidn11-dev (from .../libidn11-dev_1.8+20080606-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libkadm55. Unpacking libkadm55 (from .../libkadm55_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package comerr-dev. Unpacking comerr-dev (from .../comerr-dev_2.1-1.41.3-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libkrb5-dev. Unpacking libkrb5-dev (from .../libkrb5-dev_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libldap2-dev. Unpacking libldap2-dev (from .../libldap2-dev_2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libcurl4-openssl-dev. Unpacking libcurl4-openssl-dev (from .../libcurl4-openssl-dev_7.18.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 2 added doc-base file(s)... Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Setting up libssl-dev (0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up libidn11-dev (1.8+20080606-1) ... Setting up libkadm55 (1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3) ... Setting up comerr-dev (2.1-1.41.3-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up libkrb5-dev (1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3) ... Setting up libldap2-dev (2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1) ... Setting up libcurl4-openssl-dev (7.18.2-1ubuntu4) ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place io@crazo:~$
Now let’s try feedzirra again:
io@crazo:~$ sudo gem install pauldix-feedzirra Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed taf2-curb-0.2.7 Successfully installed pauldix-feedzirra-0.0.1 2 gems installed Installing ri documentation for taf2-curb-0.2.7... Installing ri documentation for pauldix-feedzirra-0.0.1... Installing RDoc documentation for taf2-curb-0.2.7... Installing RDoc documentation for pauldix-feedzirra-0.0.1...
Bam! It’s in and installed the correct fork of curb (taf2-curb).
Side note: In order to install gems from GitHub you need to add GitHub as a gem source.