By lucashesg
~# gem install mysql2
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing mysql2:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p353/bin/ruby extconf.rb
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/mysql2-0.3.16 for inspection.
I google and tried the below but still the same error. Pleas help! Thank you!
sudo apt-get install mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev
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It looks like you are probably missing something needed to compile the mysql2 gem’s C extension. Try installing the following packages:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libmysqlclient-dev
Hi wavrin, asb, thanks for your answer. However, I still have the same error after running your commands.
would appreciate if anyone can give suggestion on how to setup mysql2 on Ubuntu 14.04. It is a new droplet that i just created yesterday.
I guess you can reproduce this by creating a new temporary droplet Ubuntu 14.04 with ruby and rails
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