ruby-debug Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers

Question

My Rails is 3.2.1.4, Ruby is 1.9.3p448.

I got an error when I install ruby-debug:

Building native extensions.          


        

Answer 1

The answer of kenorb worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04 when I was trying installing rails! Thanks! I followed these steps below for installing rails:

1. sudo apt-get install ruby-full
2. sudo apt-get install libz-dev libiconv-hook1 libiconv-hook-dev
3. sudo gem install rails