Vagrant cannot install nokogiri-dependent plugins

Question

I\'m trying to install the rackspace plugin for vagrant (1.5.1):

vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace

But it complains

Answer 1

Warning: This is a super-hacky solution, though it's hard to call it that.

Yesterday I installed Vagrant on another OSX Mavericks box. Like many other posts I read on SO "all I had to do" was run xcode-select --install and bingo vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace worked like a charm.

Today I was mired down in the Bundler code again when it dawned on me that since this is an isolated ruby environment why not nuke my ~/.vagrant.d directory and copy the same directory from the successful build on the other box...

The result? A working vagrant rackspace on my laptop! I'm not sure I'll ever figure out what was really wrong, but if anyone wants a shot at the 100 point bounty, I'm still open to suggestions!

Answer 2

Similarly with my case, I have an issue while installing vagrant-omnibus plugin for Vagrant 1.6.3 on OSX Mavericks 10.9.4 and ruby 2.0.0p247 rbenv.

I tried setting the env NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES to 1 or true, then update+install but the same error still there.

I found that there is a suggestion in https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3769 to use the specify the baked in nokogiri version and this works for me. So, I also wrote a quick noted for myself to refer this unfortunates issue.

Answer 3

In my case the nokogiri folders and their files located in ~/vagrant.d/gems/gems had wrong rights (user/group).

After changing them to username:staff (username being your console user name), it works like a charm.

Answer 4

If Nate Murray's solution doesn't work, I found upgrading to a Vagrant version > 1.6.4 fixed the issue (as noted in this Github issue: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3769)

Answer 5

This worked for me on Mavericks and Vagrant 1.6.1:

CC=/usr/bin/gcc vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace

I tried NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1 but got an error saying that system libxml2 is too old.

Answer 6

The posted solutions didn't work for me. Instead I needed to specify the libxml2, libxslt and libiconv that I installed with homebrew (Do this first).

I installed the gem manually with the embedded ruby with the following [very concise] command line:

    /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/bin/gem install \ # select the embedded ruby
      --install-dir ~/.vagrant.d/gems \              # install to the vagrant dir
      nokogiri -v '1.6.2.1' -- \                     # pass options to nokogiri install
      --with-xml2-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8/include/libxml2 \
      --with-xml2-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8/lib \
      --with-xslt-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.26 \
      --with-iconv-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1/include \
      --with-iconv-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1/lib