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Asked: 2026-05-20T00:31:32+00:00

I am getting the following error while trying to install heroku. arun@laptop:~/apps/pm$ sudo gem

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I am getting the following error while trying to install heroku.

arun@laptop:~/apps/pm$ sudo gem install heroku
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing heroku:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
extconf.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
    from extconf.rb:1


Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.4.6 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.4.6/ext/json/ext/generator/gem_make.out
arun@laptop:~/apps/pm$
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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks a lot like this issue.

    This got solved with

    sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev
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