# ruby developer packages
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev ruby1.8 ri1.8 rdoc1.8 irb1.8
sudo apt-get install libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby
# nokogiri requirements
sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev
sudo gem install nokogiri
Freezes here after a sudo gem install nokogiri -V:
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.6.1
Parsing documentation for nokogiri-1.6.1
Parsing sources...
unable to convert "\xE4" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ext/nokogiri/tmp/i686-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.8.0/libxml2-2.8.0/doc/examples/testWriter.c, skipping
unable to convert "\xF8" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ext/nokogiri/tmp/i686-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.8.0/libxml2-2.8.0/entities.c, skipping
8% [523/6434] .../libxml2/2.8.0/libxml2-2.8.0/macos/src/libxml2_GUSIConfig.cp
I am told that it takes a while to compile. But it's been more than 24 hours...
I tried sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev with the same results.
Should I just go find another library or is there a fix for this?
Thank you
Ubuntu 12.04.4 server