# Sqlite3-ruby install error on Ubuntu

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sqlite3-ruby-install-error-on-ubuntu/193155>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 12, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sqlite3-ruby-install-error-on-ubuntu/193155 "2010-08-12T08:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![stel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@stel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stel)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sqlite3-ruby-install-error-on-ubuntu/193155/1 "2010-08-12T08:56:48Z")

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I have the following error during sqlite3-ruby install:

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  
checking for sqlite3.h… no  
sqlite3.h is missing. Try ‘port install sqlite3 +universal’ or ‘yum  
install sqlite3-devel’  
\*\*\* extconf.rb failed \*\*\*  
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of  
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more  
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:  
–with-opt-dir  
–without-opt-dir  
–with-opt-include  
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include  
–with-opt-lib  
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib  
–with-make-prog  
–without-make-prog  
–srcdir=.  
–curdir  
–ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8  
–with-sqlite3-dir  
–without-sqlite3-dir  
–with-sqlite3-include  
–without-sqlite3-include=${sqlite3-dir}/include  
–with-sqlite3-lib  
–without-sqlite3-lib=${sqlite3-dir}/lib

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  
sqlite3.h is located in /usr/include/

sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby --without-sqlite3-include=/usr/include  
doesn’t work

ERROR: While executing gem … (OptionParser::InvalidOption)  
invalid option: --without-sqlite3-include=/usr/include  
Ubuntu 10.04

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**Author:** ![stel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@stel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stel)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sqlite3-ruby-install-error-on-ubuntu/193155/2 "2010-08-12T08:59:59Z")

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Aha-ha!

sudo apt-get install build-essential 😉