# Issue with Sqlite3 on Ubuntu

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/issue-with-sqlite3-on-ubuntu/147291>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 30, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/issue-with-sqlite3-on-ubuntu/147291 "2008-08-30T13:50:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Marquis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@Marquis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marquis)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/issue-with-sqlite3-on-ubuntu/147291/1 "2008-08-30T13:50:15Z")

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I have installed sqlite3, libsqlite3-dev and libsqlite3-ruby

When I run “sudo gem1.8 install sqlite3-ruby”  
I get the following:

Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby:  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby  
extconf.rb:1:in `require’: no such file to load – mkmf (LoadError)  
from extconf.rb:1

Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-  
ruby-1.2.4 for inspection.  
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/  
sqlite3\_api/gem\_make.out

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Marquis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@Marquis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marquis)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/issue-with-sqlite3-on-ubuntu/147291/2 "2008-08-30T13:53:11Z")

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On Aug 30, 8:28 am, Marquis [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-  
> ruby-1.2.4 for inspection.  
> Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/  
> sqlite3\_api/gem\_make.out
> 
> Any ideas?

sounds like you’re missing the ruby-dev package

Fred

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**Author:** ![Marquis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@Marquis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marquis)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/issue-with-sqlite3-on-ubuntu/147291/3 "2008-09-14T19:02:20Z")

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Frederick C. wrote:

> sounds like you’re missing the ruby-dev package

or the libsqlite3-dev package  
(I have just had this trouble too)

H