On Nov 4, 5:49 am, "Luis Lavena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, MarkMT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Having been unable to get merb running with datamapper/mysql on cygwin
> > I have installed ubuntu on my laptop (using wubi - very cool!) and I'm
> > now trying to install merb. However this is what I'm seeing -
>
> > ----
> > $ sudo gem install merb
> > Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> > ERROR:  Error installing merb:
> >        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> > /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install merb
> > checking forsqlite3.h... no
> > *** extconf.rb failed ***
> > Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> > necessary libraries and/or headers.
> > ----
>
> > I have installed sqlite3 and libsqlite3-ruby1.8 using aptitude. What
> > else am I missing?
>
> You need the development headers for that library:
>
> sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
>
> that is part of do_sqlite3 adapter which is part of datamapper.
>

Works! Thanks Luis. And apologies for not doing a complete search
before posting here. In the meantime I found this, which has the same
answer - http://groups.google.com/group/merb/msg/5954850d1d171161

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