Unable to install curb gem

Question

It gives me the error of

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

        /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from extconf.rb:1:in `<main>'


Gem files will remain installed in /home/user1/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/curb-0.8.3 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/user1/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/curb-0.8.3/ext/gem_make.out

rvm list

rvm rubies

   ruby-1.9.3-p385 [ broken ]
=* ruby-1.9.3-p392 [ x86_64 ]
   ruby-2.0.0-p0 [ x86_64 ]

# => - current
# =* - current && default
#  * - default


user1@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libcurl3-gnutls is already the newest version.
libcurl4-openssl-dev is already the newest version.
libcurl3 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

How do I fix it?

score 84 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '13 at 07:07

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As I remember it uses curl libs to compile natively

So you will need curl dev libs installed try installing

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

or

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

answered Apr 23 '13 at 07:07

Pritesh Jain

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The first command was ok. The second one gave me `sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libcurl4-gnutls-dev : Depends: libcurl3-gnutls (= 7.27.0-1ubuntu1) but 7.27.0-1ubuntu1.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ` – Alan Coromano Apr 23 '13 at 07:10
I think its safe to ignore it as any one command working is fine it should help install the gem properly – Pritesh Jain Apr 23 '13 at 07:17
The first command helped me to resolve the error too. Cheers. – Khiet Jul 16 '13 at 15:45
@KarthikT you sure you are facing the same issue? – Pritesh Jain Mar 31 '14 at 19:58

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '14 at 07:43

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On fedora I did sudo yum install curl-devel and then did gem install curb and that did the trick for me

answered Jan 16 '14 at 07:43

Joseph N.

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Thanks, this worked for me also, CentOS 6.9 using a single user rvm ruby install. – Joe Jordan Apr 11 '17 at 02:14

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 02 '19 at 03:31

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In Ubuntu 18.04, using

sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev

and then install curb

gem install curb

answered Apr 02 '19 at 03:31

Hearen

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 05 '16 at 10:22

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On Ubuntu 14.04, besides the libcurl packages mentioned by PriteshJ, I also have to install ruby-dev package to make it works:

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

answered Feb 05 '16 at 10:22

Trần Việt Hoàng

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 18 '15 at 08:14

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On Ubuntu, the dependencies can be satisfied by installing the following packages:

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev

On RedHat:

$ sudo yum install ruby-devel libcurl-devel openssl-devel

answered May 18 '15 at 08:14

Moin Haidar

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 23 '15 at 03:25

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I recently had this problem on an ubuntu 14.04 docker image with curb 0.9.0 and solved it by installing libgmp-dev (in addition to the suggestions from the curb page already mentioned: libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev).

answered Dec 23 '15 at 03:25

Matt Konda

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Unable to install curb gem

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