:wrench: How to Install Jekyll in Fedora 32

:wrench: How to Install Jekyll in Fedora 32

2020, Sep 25    

Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages to build, deploy and publish your Blog Site easily. Using Jekyll, you can blog using beautiful Markdown syntax, and without having to deal with any databases.

Roman’s Blog is published using this amazing technology, however my first steps were not easy.

To use it basically means to execute the following commands:

❯ gem install bundler jekyll
❯ jekyll new rmarting.github.io
❯ cd rmarting.github.io
❯ bundle exec jekyll serve
   Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/

However the reality was not so easy. This blog post described the steps done to install and use on my Fedora 32.

Installation errors

This simple command was a nightmare:

>  gem install bundler jekyll

Because I found so many installation errors such as:

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

    current directory: /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/gems/eventmachine-1.2.7/ext
/usr/bin/ruby -I /usr/share/rubygems -r ./siteconf20200925-983033-i0nt3z.rb extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /usr/share/include/ruby.h

You might have to install separate package for the ruby development
environment, ruby-dev or ruby-devel for example.

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/gems/eventmachine-1.2.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/eventmachine-1.2.7/gem_make.out
1 gem installed

And:

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

    current directory: /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/gems/eventmachine-1.2.7/ext
/usr/bin/ruby -I /usr/share/rubygems -r ./siteconf20200925-983599-if4elb.rb extconf.rb
checking for -lcrypto... *** 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.

# Reduced log messages to avoid be a large blog

To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:

  /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/eventmachine-1.2.7/mkmf.log

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/gems/eventmachine-1.2.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/eventmachine-1.2.7/gem_make.out
1 gem installed

And this other one:

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

    current directory: /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/gems/eventmachine-1.2.7/ext
/usr/bin/ruby -I /usr/share/rubygems -r ./siteconf20200925-984930-xt8hum.rb extconf.rb

# Reduced log messages to avoid be a large blog

make: g++: Command not found
make: *** [Makefile:237: binder.o] Error 127

make failed, exit code 2

Gem files will remain installed in /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/gems/eventmachine-1.2.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/rmarting/.gem/ruby/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/eventmachine-1.2.7/gem_make.out
1 gem installed

Prepare your Fedora 32

After some researching (ok, googling it) I found that you need to install something else that ruby. The final list of dependencies you have to install is:

❯ sudo dnf install rubygems ruby-devel gcc rpm-build gcc-c++ make zlib-devel

Then you could come back to the original commands to execute locally your GitHub pages:

❯ gem install bundler jekyll
❯ bundle exec jekyll serve
   Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/

Enjoy it!

References

# How-to # fedora32 # ruby # GitHub