ERROR: Error installing capybara-webkit:

Question

Any suggestions on how to fix?

gem install capybara-webkit -v '0.11.0'
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing capybara-webkit:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /home/durrantm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby extconf.rb
sh: qmake: not found


Gem files will remain installed in /home/durrantm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/capybara-webkit-0.11.0 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/durrantm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/capybara-webkit-0.11.0/./gem_make.out

What platform are you trying to install capybara-webkit on? – moritz Jul 06 '12 at 07:59 — moritz, Jul 06 '12 at 07:59

score 218 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '12 at 23:50

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If you are in Ubuntu do

sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui

If you are on Mac

brew install qt

and then

gem install capybara-webkit -v '0.11.0'

answered Jul 23 '12 at 23:50

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I had to `export QMAKE=/usr/bin/qmake-qt4` on RHEL6. – E-rich Oct 24 '12 at 15:24
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I already had qt installed and it was still failing. Make sure that you uninstall qt and reinstall it if this is the case for you. The latest version of Capybara should work on the latest version of Mavericks on Macs. – Brian Jeffrey Gross Jul 29 '14 at 03:59
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Worked for me on os x Yosemite – Kariem Muhammed Oct 20 '14 at 11:23
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Similar issue, but since I used brew I needed to supply a path to where qt5 is installed. `export QMAKE=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.5.1_1/bin/qmake` – Seth Jeffery Nov 16 '15 at 08:59
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For Mac see Waynn Lue's comment below – lifecoder Nov 17 '15 at 13:36
On alpine please use `apk search qt4` or `apk search qt5` and install whatever you need using `apk add [name without version]` – user1735921 Aug 17 '16 at 07:45
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I had to `brew link qt --force` – parreirat Jan 13 '17 at 13:05
In case of ubuntu, if you get an error `Unable to locate package` then run following command instead mentioned above: `sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev` This will do the job. – Pradeep Agrawal Dec 26 '18 at 08:54
For Ubuntu 18.04: `sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev` – Fernando Kosh Jul 01 '19 at 12:49

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 29 '16 at 07:19

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For Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get install qt-sdk

Followed by

gem install capybara-webkit -v '1.11.0' or replace with whatever version you want to install.

answered Jul 29 '16 at 07:19

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Worked for me as well on Ubuntu 16.10 – Akhilesh Sinha Feb 21 '17 at 18:00

score 16 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 11 '12 at 05:51

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You are probably missing the qt libraries. See the capybara-webkit wiki for instructions on installing them for your platform.

answered Jul 11 '12 at 05:51

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 01:07

brew install qt will only install (as of August 4, 2015) 4.8.6, which gives you this message.

WARNING: The next major version of capybara-webkit will require at least version 5.0 of Qt. You're using version 4.8.6.

Instead, if you do

brew install qt5
brew link --force qt5

you won't get that error.

Ethan Chen · Answer 5 · 2016-06-23T00:58:21.847

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On El Capitan or Yosemite, you may need to do brew install qt55 according to the doc here.

edited Jun 23 '16 at 00:58

answered Jun 22 '16 at 22:50

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Note that if you want to install version 5.5 specifically, you will now need to do `brew install homebrew/versions/qt55`. – jlleblanc Nov 17 '16 at 21:13

Alexander Saratovcev · Answer 6 · 2020-06-29T10:29:11.363

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For Ubuntu 20.04 you can install qt5-default package

sudo apt-get install g++ qt5-default libqt5webkit5-dev gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-x

Then install the gem with the required version:

gem install capybara-webkit -v '1.11.0'

edited Jun 29 '20 at 10:29

answered Jun 29 '20 at 10:22

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Still works in 2022! – Sam Johnson Jan 12 '22 at 08:53

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 21 '19 at 12:26

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On fedora is a bit more complicated. I did the next which takes a while:

$ sudo dnf install make gcc-c++ gdb qt5*-devel qt-creator
$ export QMAKE=/usr/bin/qmake-qt5
$ gem install capybara-webkit

Then it worked!

See more info on capybara-webkit wiki

answered Nov 21 '19 at 12:26

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