Comments on: Installing Nokogiri on CentOS5

By: loganathan

loganathan — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:32:07 +0000

XSD validation fails in centos 5.4

By: deshi

deshi — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:38:33 +0000

gem install nokogiri — –with-xml2-lib=/usr/lib –with-xml2-include=/usr/include/libxml2 \
–with-xslt-lib=/usr/lib –with-xslt-include=/usr/include/libxslt/

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:32:00 +0000

That’s great news! We’re also using Cucumber here on an upcoming project. One of my colleagues started the ball rolling http://bit.ly/pxdA

By: Aimee

Aimee — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:59:35 +0000

Hey, you know what, i’ve no idea what the problem was, but Aaron (tenderlove) has given me an alternative.

I’ve installed a dev version of the next release, which does not use Rake to install. Now i have webrat and cucumber and it all works a treat!

Thank you so much for your help. We maybe will remain forever baffled by the original problem.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:14:17 +0000

Sorry Aimee, I’m running out of ideas. Could you post the content of:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/nokogiri-1.0.6/gem_make.out

just to see if it holds any secrets.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:37:58 +0000

You won’t believe this:

[user@localhost ~]$ which rake
/usr/local/bin/rake
[user@localhost ~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/MobilePartner/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/: \
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/acer/bin:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/: \
/home/user/bin:/usr/acer/bin:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/home/user/bin:/usr/acer/bin
[user@localhost ~]$ rake --version
rake, version 0.8.3

Umm, any other possible explanations?!

I really do appreciate your help, by the way. I am completely stumped!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:43:40 +0000

The error would indicate that it can not find your rake command even if it is installed. What do these commands return:

which rake
echo $PATH

return?

By: Aimee

Aimee — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:10:23 +0000

No, i have rake. It’s a really unhelpful message, isn’t it?! I guess it just means that rake caused the problem, but i still don’t really know what the problem was.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:49:41 +0000

Looks like you need rake installed for starters.

sudo gem install rake

By: Aimee

Aimee — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:08:56 +0000

I am on an Acer Aspire One. It is Linpus Linux which is a variant of Fedora. The error is not at all helpful:

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo gem install nokogiri
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing nokogiri:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

rake RUBYARCHDIR=/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/nokogiri-1.0.6/lib \
RUBYLIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/nokogiri-1.0.6/lib
sh: rake: command not found


Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/nokogiri-1.0.6 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/nokogiri-1.0.6/gem_make.out