# Cannot start sqlite3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 9, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-start-sqlite3/194676 "2010-09-09T00:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-start-sqlite3/194676/1 "2010-09-09T00:34:19Z")
Hello everybody, i’m a long time watcher of these forums first time poster. I wanted to start getting into rails and have a play, I found a very useful guide on the Internet detailing the install process for Ubuntu 10.04, after the install and setup process which seem to complete OK, i went ahead and started my first project, however when I go to start the server I get this message? root@server:/home/code/blog# rails script/server Could not find gem ‘sqlite3-ruby (\>= 0, runtime)’ in any of the gem sources. Try running `bundle install`. Which I thought was very strange, I have tried running root@server:/home/code/blog# bundle install Fetching source index for [http://rubygems.org/](http://rubygems.org/) Using rake (0.8.7) Using abstract (1.0.0) Using activesupport (3.0.0) Using builder (2.1.2) Using i18n (0.4.1) Using activemodel (3.0.0) Using erubis (2.6.6) Using rack (1.2.1) Using rack-mount (0.6.13) Using rack-test (0.5.4) Using tzinfo (0.3.23) Using actionpack (3.0.0) Using mime-types (1.16) Using polyglot (0.3.1) Using treetop (1.4.8) Using mail (2.2.5) Using actionmailer (3.0.0) Using arel (1.0.1) Using activerecord (3.0.0) Using activeresource (3.0.0) Using bundler (1.0.0) Using thor (0.14.0) Using railties (3.0.0) Using rails (3.0.0) Installing sqlite3-ruby (1.3.1) with native extensions /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:483:in `build_extensions': ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb extconf.rb:3:in `require’: no such file to load – mkmf (LoadError) from extconf.rb:3 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.3.1 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.3.1/ext/sqlite3/gem\_make.out from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:446:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:446:in `build\_extensions’ from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:198:in `install' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/source.rb:100:in `install’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/installer.rb:55:in `run' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/spec_set.rb:12:in `each’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/spec\_set.rb:12:in `each' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/installer.rb:44:in `run’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/installer.rb:8:in `install' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/cli.rb:217:in `install’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/task.rb:22:in `send' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/task.rb:22:in `run’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/invocation.rb:118:in `invoke_task' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/vendor/thor.rb:246:in `dispatch’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/base.rb:389:in `start' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.0/bin/bundle:13 from /usr/bin/bundle:19:in `load’ from /usr/bin/bundle:19 Does this message make any sense to anyone? Hope someone can help, thanks for looking! ---
**Author:** ![daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-start-sqlite3/194676/2 "2010-09-09T04:53:51Z")
some gem have some kind of adaptation to C and are compiled on installation, on ubuntu you need to install build-essential libopenssl-ruby and libsqlite3-dev , note that this are not gems they are native extentions thats why bundler cant fix it, at the end the gem interact with this libraries to the code is executed in the compiled binary (ruby is interpreted). ---
**Author:** ![daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-start-sqlite3/194676/3 "2010-09-09T04:54:26Z")
so do sudo apt-get install build-essential libopenssl-ruby libsqlite3-dev ---
**Author:** ![daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-start-sqlite3/194676/4 "2010-09-09T13:03:15Z")
did you compiled ruby from source? the best solution in case you are having problems is to install ruby version manager, it will just make everything pretty , the down side is that you have to reinstall the gems but with bundler that is way too easy. But anyway how did you install ruby? ---
**Author:** ![daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-start-sqlite3/194676/5 "2010-09-09T13:05:01Z")
forgot to say that you should have ruby1.8-dev so try sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev ---
**Author:** ![daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-start-sqlite3/194676/6 "2010-09-09T11:44:56Z")
Hello brito thanks for taking a look at this. I’ve tried the following: ‘sudo apt-get install build-essential libopenssl-ruby libsqlite3-dev’ However I receive the follow back from apt: root@server:/home/dave# sudo apt-get install build-essential libopenssl-ruby libsqlite3-dev sudo: unable to resolve host server Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done build-essential is already the newest version. libopenssl-ruby is already the newest version. libsqlite3-dev is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Do I have these packages configured already? ---
**Author:** ![daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@daz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-start-sqlite3/194676/7 "2010-09-09T13:44:36Z")
radhames brito wrote: > forgot to say that you should have ruby1.8-dev so try > > sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev That worked perfectly radhames, what a great result, installed the ruby1.8-dev and run a bundle install which added the sqlite3 gem automatically. many thanks!