# Having trouble installing rails - SSL issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 22, 2007, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-rails-ssl-issues/120966 "2007-11-22T08:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-rails-ssl-issues/120966/1 "2007-11-22T08:29:02Z")
I’m trying to install rails on a Debian Etch box. When I run gem install rails --include-dependencies, however, I get this: ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Exception) SSL is not installed on this system The problem is, OpenSSL IS installed on my system. I even tried to reinstall it to make sure, but everything was at its newest version. I read in another thread that gem shouldn’t need this anyway, unless I request strict security when I start the installation. Anybody know what’s up? Cheers ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-rails-ssl-issues/120966/2 "2007-11-22T09:47:00Z")
On 11/22/07, Sean C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > request strict security when I start the installation. > > Anybody know what’s up? Do you also have the libssl-dev package installed? I recon the library provides a lot of ‘crypto related’ algorithms beyond just SSL connections, e.g. message digests and whatnot, which have a lot of uses. Isak ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-rails-ssl-issues/120966/3 "2007-11-25T02:02:25Z")
Sean C. wrote: > I’m trying to install rails on a Debian Etch box. When I run gem install > rails --include-dependencies, however, I get this: > > ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Exception) > SSL is not installed on this system > > The problem is, OpenSSL IS installed on my system. I even tried to > reinstall it to make sure, but everything was at its newest version. I > read in another thread that gem shouldn’t need this anyway, unless I > request strict security when I start the installation. > > Anybody know what’s up? > > Cheers You must install libopenssl-ruby (I had the same problem installing on Debian distri apt-get install libopenssl-ruby ) ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-rails-ssl-issues/120966/4 "2007-12-17T14:18:50Z")
I’m running into this same issue on a SUSE 10.1 box. In looking around, it appears that libopenssl-ruby is a debian-only package, but I’m kinda new to linux so I’m probably missing something. Any help is much appreciated. Current Progress: Installed Ruby Installed RubyGem installed openssl The output of ‘sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies’ or ‘sudo gem install rails -y’ is: Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Exception) SSL is not installed on this system Thanks, Smitty On Nov 25, 8:29 pm, Sean C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-rails-ssl-issues/120966/5 "2007-11-26T02:29:01Z")
You guys are great. libopenssl fixed it right up. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-rails-ssl-issues/120966/6 "2007-12-17T17:06:55Z")
After a little further investigation I figured out that I needed to install libopenssl-dev (or devel). After installing that, then going into the ruby source /ext/oppenssl and running: ruby extconf.rb make make install I was able then to run: sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies It seems to have installed successfully: > rails -v > Rails 2.0.1 Thanks anyway…