Can't install on debian 5.0

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Issue by arctica Tuesday Dec 27, 2011 at 16:21 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric/issues/3

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I just tried installing the gem on a debian 5.0 machine.

# gem install fnordmetric
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing fnordmetric:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install fnordmetric
extconf.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
    from extconf.rb:1

Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/bson_ext-1.5.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/bson_ext-1.5.2/ext/cbson/gem_make.out

I'm not a Ruby user so you'll have to tell me how to get more meaningful information if needed. I tried installing the gems mkmf-lite and mkmfmf but that didn't help.

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Comment by paulasmuth Tuesday Dec 27, 2011 at 16:28 GMT

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mh, can you try this?

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9-dev

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Comment by arctica Tuesday Dec 27, 2011 at 21:07 GMT

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After purgeing all the old ruby packages and installing ruby1.9 ruby1.9-dev and rubygems1.9, I got to the following point:

sh-3.2# gem install fnordmetric
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing fnordmetric:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.9 extconf.rb install fnordmetric
creating Makefile

make
cc -I. -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.0/x86_64-linux -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.0 -I.   -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -g -g -O3 -O2 -g -Wall -Wno-parentheses  -fPIC  -o parser.o -c parser.c
In file included from parser.rl:2:
parser.h:7:16: error: re.h: No such file or directory
parser.h:13:16: error: st.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [parser.o] Error 1

Seems like it's missing some includes but I have no idea what libraries they are used with.

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Comment by dget Wednesday Dec 28, 2011 at 09:17 GMT

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I went through this whole dance with Ubuntu 10.04. I'm not sure how strict the version requirement (1.9.2) is, but I ended up having to compile ruby from source since the ruby1.9 package I had was only 1.9.0 (and track down a list of dependencies beforehand to apt install). It might not be the same case as yours, but a possibility.

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Comment by JohnMurray Thursday Jan 12, 2012 at 21:24 GMT

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If you're running RVM then you can run the command rvm requirements which will show you the particular packages you need to install on your Debian/Ubuntu system.

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Comment by Kakani Wednesday Jan 16, 2013 at 06:48 GMT

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I am trying to install fnordmetric gem in my rails application. I installed the gem with this command sudo gem install fnordmetric. Gem is installed but i am getting this error when i run the server through script/server

invalid gemspec in illformed requirement in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/fnordmetric-1.0 gemspec and in /code/ts-delayed-delta/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/fnordmetric-1.0 gemspec

I updated the gems using sudo gem update --system. Still i am getting the same error.

Can anyone suggest me how to overcome this problem..? Thank you in advance

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Comment by sheerun Monday Oct 21, 2013 at 19:19 GMT

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@Kakani Is gemspec still illformed for current fnordmetrc?

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Comment by Kakani Tuesday Oct 22, 2013 at 03:11 GMT

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I am using ruby 1.8 and rails 2.3, but fnordmetric gem supports for rails 3 and ruby 1.9 onwards that's why I got this error.

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Comment by sheerun Tuesday Oct 22, 2013 at 09:17 GMT

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I guess this can be closed?

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Kakani notifications@github.com wrote:

I am using ruby 1.8 and rails 2.3, but fnordmetric gem supports for rails 3 and ruby 1.9 onwards that's why I got this error.

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