Error while trying to gem install json under Ubuntu 12.04

Question

Catching this error under Ubuntu 12.04:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing json:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/home/allaud/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/ruby extconf.rb
creating Makefile

make
compiling generator.c
linking shared-object json/ext/generator.so
gcc: error: generator.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [generator.so] Ошибка 1

Gem files will remain installed in /home/allaud/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/json-1.7.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/allaud/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/json-1.7.7/ext/json/ext/generator/gem_make.out

I am using fresh rvm and ruby 1.9.3 and have same trouble only with json gem.

The error occurs when I try to execute:

gem install json

If I add sudo everything is ok, but I cannot (and shouldn't) use sudo with rvm commands.

will this [stack over flow question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11058952/why-do-i-get-an-error-installing-the-json-gem-in-ubuntu) solve your problem??? — Sagar Bommidi, Apr 24 '13 at 19:32
Sagar Bommidi, as you can see, I am using ruby 1.9.3. And there is no ruby1.9.3-dev package in my repos — Anton Pleshivtsev, Apr 24 '13 at 19:41
I know ruby usually hates this, but `sudo apt-get install ruby-json` seems to be working for me. — mjgpy3, Apr 24 '13 at 20:04
ruby-json does not help and it fetches ruby 1.8 as dependency — Anton Pleshivtsev, Apr 25 '13 at 04:23

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '13 at 18:29

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sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev

may fix it .Cheers !

answered Jul 09 '13 at 18:29

aelor

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '15 at 07:34

Try running below commands(works for ubuntu 14.04):

$ sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev

and then install json

$ gem install json

Reference: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-do-i-fix-this-error-when-deploying-rails-with-capistrano-using-nginx-and-puma

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 13 '14 at 11:01

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For me this worked (a solution from @mjgpy3)

sudo apt-get install ruby-json

answered Apr 13 '14 at 11:01

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Error while trying to gem install json under Ubuntu 12.04

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