Install mysql problem

Ruby
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in my console,
pt@pt:~$ sudo gem install mysql
[sudo] password for pt:
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing mysql:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
extconf.rb:10:in `require’: no such file to load – mkmf (LoadError)
from extconf.rb:10

Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1
for inspection.
Results logged to
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/ext/mysql_api/gem_make.out
pt@pt:~$ gem -v
1.3.7
pt@pt:~$
what’s wrong?

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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Pen T. [email protected] wrote:

Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1
for inspection.
Results logged to
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/ext/mysql_api/gem_make.out
pt@pt:~$ gem -v
1.3.7
pt@pt:~$
what’s wrong?

You are missing the headerfiles for MySQL. If you re on a binary
distribution, “apt-get install mysql-dev” or “yum install mysql-dev”
should make the gem install work (adjust the installation command to
your distribution of *NIX of choice, of course).

–
Phillip G.

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I’ve moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I’ve played and passed through,
Who’ll remember my song or my face.

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pt@pt:~$ apt-get install mysql-dev
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission
denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you
root?
pt@pt:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-dev
[sudo] password for pt:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package mysql-dev
pt@pt:~$

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On Dec 7, 7:06pm, Pen T. [email protected] wrote:

E: Unable to locate package mysql-dev
pt@pt:~$

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Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

sudo gem install mysql – --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/
mysql_config

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On Dec 7, 4:15am, Pen T. [email protected] wrote:

Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1
for inspection.
Results logged to
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/ext/mysql_api/gem_make.out
pt@pt:~$ gem -v
1.3.7
pt@pt:~$
what’s wrong?

Your installation of Ruby is not complete.

Please install ruby-full

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

Also, mysql gem requires mysql headers, try “sudo apt-get install
mysql-dev”, but dunno if that works as I’m not familiarized with
Debian/Ubuntu packaging conventions