# How to install fxruby on linux now?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-fxruby-on-linux-now/250885>\
**Category:** FXRuby\
**Created:** [November 4, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-fxruby-on-linux-now/250885 "2018-11-04T22:39:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![bt1397](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@bt1397](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bt1397)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-fxruby-on-linux-now/250885/1 "2018-11-04T22:39:11Z")

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hello ,i want to install fxruby to linux , my linux is fedora but if you install fxruby near this time to any unix , please help me  
i several try to it, but dos not know any lib

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**Author:** ![bt1397](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@bt1397](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bt1397)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-fxruby-on-linux-now/250885/2 "2018-11-05T18:51:21Z")

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hello , and thanks mr. hellekin for attention

i install all this :  
`ruby-devel.x86_64`  
`fox-devel.x86_64`  
`sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config`  
`yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'`  
`yum group info 'Development Tools'`  
`yum -y install gcc ruby-devel rubygems compass`  
`gcc compt`  
`gcc-c++-x86_64-linux-gnu.x86_64`  
`gcc-c++`  
[  
gcc-c+±8.2.1-4.fc28.x86\_64 C++ support for GCC  
libstdc+±devel-8.2.1-4.fc28.x86\_64 Header files and libraries for C++ development  
]  
`sudo dnf install libpng12-devel.x86_64`

gem install fxruby  
that say

> Blockquote  
> checking for fox per pkg-config… yes  
> checking for fxscintilla per pkg-config… no  
> checking for fxscintilla on Ubuntu with missing libfxscintilla.so link… no  
> checking for fxscintilla build… no  
> checking for sys/time.h… yes  
> checking for signal.h… yes  
> checking for deflate() in -lz… yes  
> checking for png\_create\_read\_struct() in -lpng… no  
> checking for jpeg\_mem\_init() in -ljpeg… no  
> checking for TIFFSetErrorHandler() in -ltiff… no  
> checking for XftInit() in -lXft… no  
> checking for XShmQueryVersion() in -lXext… no  
> checking for XFindContext() in -lX11… no  
> checking for glXCreateContext() in -lGL… no  
> checking for gluNewQuadric() in -lGLU… no  
> checking for thread local variables… yes  
> checking for rb\_thread\_call\_without\_gvl()… no  
> checking for rb\_during\_gc()… no  
> creating extconf.h  
> creating Makefile

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**Author:** ![how](https://www.ruby-forum.com/user_avatar/www.ruby-forum.com/how/32/356_2.png) [@how](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/how)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-fxruby-on-linux-now/250885/3 "2018-11-05T20:54:15Z")

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Looks like you need to install more development dependencies.

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**Author:** ![bt1397](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@bt1397](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bt1397)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-fxruby-on-linux-now/250885/4 "2018-11-05T21:15:02Z")

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yes , thanks .after i fund all dependencies , i write them.

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**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-fxruby-on-linux-now/250885/5 "2018-11-06T00:06:02Z")

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Install FOX Dependencies for linux ( **aptitude** )

_sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev_

_sudo aptitude install libx11-dev libglu1-xorg-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxrandr-dev libxft2-dev_

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**solved** for fedora

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i installed all of them :

> `ruby-devel.x86_64`
> 
> `fox-devel.x86_64`
> 
> `sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config`
> 
> `yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'`
> 
> `yum group info 'Development Tools' yum -y install gcc ruby-devel`  
> `rubygems compass`
> 
> `gcc compt gcc-c++-x86_64-linux-gnu.x86_64`
> 
> `gcc-c++`
> 
> [   
> gcc-c+±8.2.1-4.fc28.x86\_64 C++ support for GCC  
> libstdc+±devel-8.2.1-4.fc28.x86\_64 Header files and libraries for C++ development
> 
> ]
> 
> `sudo dnf install libpng12-devel.x86_64`
> 
> `sudo dnf install libb2-devel.x86_64`

> `sudo dnf install libX11-devel`
> 
> `sudo dnf install libXcursor-devel.x86_64`
> 
> `sudo dnf install libXext-devel.x86_64 libXrandr-devel.x86_64`
> 
> `gem install fxruby`