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Asked: 2026-06-13T01:51:23+00:00

I was running the command bundle install on my Rails project, and it gave

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I was running the command

bundle install

on my Rails project, and it gave the error:

...
Using activerecord (3.0.11) 
Using activeresource (3.0.11) 
Using bigdecimal (1.1.0) 
Installing fcgi (0.8.8) with native extensions 
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /home/jjboat/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby extconf.rb 
checking for fcgiapp.h... no
checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no
*** 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.
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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to install the fcgi development package to be able to build native extensions (and you have to have install a C build chain before that as well). You haven’t specified your distro here, but on Red Hat (and derivatives like Fedora) you’ll generally do it like this:

    sudo yum install fcgi-devel

    and on Debian (and Ubuntu) you can do the same like this:

    sudo apt-get install libfcgi-dev

    I’m not 100% certain about the name of the package in Debian, but it should be easy for you to figure it out.

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