unable to install nokogiri in ubuntu 12.04

ruby-on-rails ubuntu nokogiri
Hardik Joshi picture Hardik Joshi · Jul 26, 2012 · Viewed 11.7k times · Source

I am trying to setup rails env on my new ubuntu machine. But I am facing trouble while install nokogiri gem.. I have installed libxslt and libxml2 libs thourgh rvm pkg command as well as using apt-get. I thought it is showing me libxslt is missing error. 

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

        /home/hacker5/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby extconf.rb --with-xslt-include=/usr/include/libxslt
checking for libxml/parser.h... yes
checking for libxslt/xslt.h... yes
checking for libexslt/exslt.h... yes
checking for iconv_open() in iconv.h... no
checking for iconv_open() in -liconv... yes
checking for xmlParseDoc() in -lxml2... yes
checking for xsltParseStylesheetDoc() in -lxslt... no
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libxslt is missing.  please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for help with installing dependencies.
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EDIT

I am using rvm setup and ruby 1.9.3

Answer

Benjamin Tan Wei Hao picture Benjamin Tan Wei Hao · Jul 26, 2012

Try this:

# nokogiri requirements
sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev
gem install nokogiri

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