Ruby-build: BUILD FAILED Installing ruby-2.1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[lgs]

rbenv install fails building Ruby 2.1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

lsoave@basenode:~$ rbenv install 2.1.2
Downloading ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz...
-> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/f22a6447811a81f3c808d1c2a5ce3b5f5f0955c68c9a749182feb425589e6635
Installing ruby-2.1.2...

BUILD FAILED

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217
Results logged to /tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217.log

Last 10 log lines:
ruby-2.1.2/ruby_atomic.h
/tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217/ruby-2.1.2 /tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217 ~
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217/ruby-2.1.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

BUILD FAILED

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217
Results logged to /tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217.log

Last 10 log lines:
ruby-2.1.2/ruby_atomic.h
/tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217/ruby-2.1.2 /tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217 ~
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/ruby-build.20140701125622.7217/ruby-2.1.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
lsoave@basenode:~$ 

[lgs]

... it seems something about C compiler:

lsoave@basenode:~$ less /tmp/ruby-build.20140701130345.8077.log
...
...
/tmp/ruby-build.20140701130345.8077/ruby-2.1.2 /tmp/ruby-build.20140701130345.8077 ~
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/ruby-build.20140701130345.8077/ruby-2.1.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

[lgs]

For some reasons my Ubuntu platform were missing some dependencies and by forcing the following installation, it solve the prblem:

sudo apt-get install autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6 libreadline6-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev

In particular I got installed the following extra packages:

  automake autotools-dev g++ g++-4.8 libbison-dev libc6-dev libsigsegv2
  libssl-doc libstdc++-4.8-dev linux-libc-dev m4

as well as the following NEW packages:

  autoconf automake autotools-dev bison build-essential g++ g++-4.8
  libbison-dev libc6-dev libsigsegv2 libssl-dev libssl-doc libstdc++-4.8-dev
  linux-libc-dev m4 zlib1g-dev

Now the bulid works fine:

lsoave@basenode:~$ rbenv install 2.1.2
Downloading ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz...
-> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/f22a6447811a81f3c808d1c2a5ce3b5f5f0955c68c9a749182feb425589e6635
Installing ruby-2.1.2...
Installed ruby-2.1.2 to /home/lsoave/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2
lsoave@basenode:~$ rbenv local 2.1.2
lsoave@basenode:~$ ruby -v
ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-linux]
lsoave@basenode:~$ 

[brunowego]

Thanks @lgs :+1:

[jack-bischoff]

Awesome! Solved my problem, Thanks!

[equivalent]

:+1: solved my problem too

[amrtanair]

rbenv install 2.3.1Downloading ruby-2.3.1.tar.bz2...
-> https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.3/ruby-2.3.1.tar.bz2
error: failed to download ruby-2.3.1.tar.bz2

BUILD FAILED (Ubuntu 14.04 using ruby-build 20160913-13-g8ef0c34)

On following the commands that @lgs has mentioned, I got the following errors.

automake: error: no Automake input file found for 'autotools-dev'
automake: error: no Automake input file found for 'g++'
automake: error: no Automake input file found for 'g++-4.8'
automake: error: no Automake input file found for 'libbison-dev'
automake: error: no Automake input file found for 'libc6-dev'
automake: error: no Automake input file found for 'libsigsegv2'
automake: error: no input file found among supplied arguments

Any suggestions to what I can do ?

[rohitgupta1694]

:+1: Solved my problem as well. Thank @lgs

[RaminMammadzada]

I also faced this problem. This resource helped me to solve the problem.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-with-rvm-on-ubuntu-18-04