gem install error libxslt is missing
When installing ruby gem, i get following error
[root@video1 cms]# gem install sanitize -v 1.2.1 --no-ri --no-rdoc Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sanitize: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-head/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking for libxml/parser.h... yes checking for libxslt/xslt.h... no ----- libxslt is missing. please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for help with installing dependencies. ----- *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-head/bin/ruby --with-zlib-dir --without-zlib-dir --with-zlib-include --without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include --with-zlib-lib --without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib --with-iconv-dir --without-iconv-dir --with-iconv-include --without-iconv-include=${iconv-dir}/include --with-iconv-lib --without-iconv-lib=${iconv-dir}/lib --with-xml2-dir --without-xml2-dir --with-xml2-include --without-xml2-include=${xml2-dir}/include --with-xml2-lib --without-xml2-lib=${xml2-dir}/lib --with-xslt-dir --without-xslt-dir --with-xslt-include --without-xslt-include=${xslt-dir}/include --with-xslt-lib --without-xslt-lib=${xslt-dir}/lib Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head/gems/nokogiri-1.4.7 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head/gems/nokogiri-1.4.7/ext/nokogiri/gem_make.out [root@video1 cms]#
Soluton
Install missing libxslt devel package.
On CentOS installed.
yum install -y libxslt-devel
For error “libxml2 is missing.”, install
yum install -y libxml2-devel