Can't install nokogiri gem - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm installing nokogiri 1.6.6.2 on Arch Linux,as metasploit installation can't proceed without it.
I got the following output:
[ blackarch Downloads ]# gem install ./nokogiri-1.6.6.2.gem
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing ./nokogiri-1.6.6.2.gem:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20151103-1360-1u3d2zo.rb extconf.rb
checking if the C compiler accepts ... yes
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
checking for gzdopen() in -lz... yes
checking for iconv... yes
************************************************************************
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Building Nokogiri with a packaged version of libxml2-2.9.2
with the following patches applied:
- 0001-Revert-Missing-initialization-for-the-catalog-module.patch
- 0002-Fix-missing-entities-after-CVE-2014-3660-fix.patch
Team Nokogiri will keep on doing their best to provide security
updates in a timely manner, but if this is a concern for you and want
to use the system library instead; abort this installation process and
reinstall nokogiri as follows:
gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries
[--with-xml2-config=/path/to/xml2-config]
[--with-xslt-config=/path/to/xslt-config]
If you are using Bundler, tell it to use the option:
bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries
bundle install
Note, however, that nokogiri is not fully compatible with arbitrary
versions of libxml2 provided by OS/package vendors.
************************************************************************
Extracting libxml2-2.9.2.tar.gz into tmp/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.9.2... OK
Running patch with /root/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/gems/nokogiri-1.6.6.2/ports/patches/libxml2/0001-Revert-Missing-initialization-for-the-catalog-module.patch...
Running 'patch' for libxml2 2.9.2... ERROR, review '/root/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/gems/nokogiri-1.6.6.2/ext/nokogiri/tmp/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.9.2/patch.log' to see what happened.
*** 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/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
--help
--clean
--use-system-libraries
--enable-static
--disable-static
--with-zlib-dir
--without-zlib-dir
--with-zlib-include
--without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include
--with-zlib-lib
--without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib
--enable-cross-build
--disable-cross-build
/root/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/gems/mini_portile-0.6.2/lib/mini_portile.rb:279:in `block in execute': Failed to complete patch task (RuntimeError)
from /root/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/gems/mini_portile-0.6.2/lib/mini_portile.rb:271:in `chdir'
from /root/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/gems/mini_portile-0.6.2/lib/mini_portile.rb:271:in `execute'
from extconf.rb:311:in `block in patch'
from extconf.rb:308:in `each'
from extconf.rb:308:in `patch'
from /root/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/gems/mini_portile-0.6.2/lib/mini_portile.rb:108:in `cook'
from extconf.rb:278:in `block in process_recipe'
from extconf.rb:177:in `tap'
from extconf.rb:177:in `process_recipe'
from extconf.rb:475:in `<main>'
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /root/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/gems/nokogiri-1.6.6.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /root/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.2.0/nokogiri-1.6.6.2/gem_make.out
I've tried every possible solution I found, either locally installation or gem install nokogiri doesn't work...

Answer 1

You can try :
bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries
bundle install
Or you can reseach sth on
nokogiri doc

Answer 2

Try this way:
gem install nokogiri -v 1.6.6.2 -- --use-system-libraries

Answer 3

sudo apt-get install build-essential patch ruby-dev zlib1g-dev liblzma-dev
gem install nokogiri
did it for me

Answer 4

If you are using macOS Mojave, Xcode 10 on macOS Mojave moves the system headers out of /usr/include and so Nokogiri will fail to build.
Here is a workaround from nokogiri official installing guide
open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg

Answer 5

You should update your gemfile with the nokogiri gem
gem 'nokogiri', '~> 1.6', '>= 1.6.8'
after updating your Gemfile with the line of code above run:
bundle install