Installing sqlite headers on ubuntu (sqlite3.h not found)

Posted Posted by Wes in Ruby, Ruby on Rails     Comments No comments
Mar
5

I was setting up Integrity for the first time and ran into this on my server when bundling gems:

~$ bundle install
...
Installing do_sqlite3 (0.10.0) from rubygems repository at
  http://gemcutter.org/ with native extensions
  /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:482:in
  `build_extensions':
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
  (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
checking for sqlite3.h... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
...

The key is the line: checking for sqlite3.h... no
The do_sqlite3 gem gets compiled natively, but the development headers weren’t installed on the system and so the compilation won’t work.

Install them:

~$ sudo apt-get install sqlite3
~$ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

Then, re-bundle:

~$ bundle install

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