Failed to build gem native extension

[imranniazikhan]

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Subject of the issue

Failed to build gem native extension

Your environment

• Version of WPScan: Not installed yet due to error
• Version of Ruby: ruby 3.0.2p107 (2021-07-07 revision 0db68f0233) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
• Operating System (OS): Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Actual behavior

When i sudo gem install wpscan, it produce the following errors.

Tell us what happens instead.
root@imran-VB:~# gem install wpscan
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing wpscan:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory: /var/lib/gems/3.0.0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.4.3/ext/yajl

/usr/bin/ruby3.0 -I /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby -r ./siteconf20240619-4753-2yzy62.rb extconf.rb
creating Makefile

current directory: /var/lib/gems/3.0.0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.4.3/ext/yajl
make DESTDIR= clean

current directory: /var/lib/gems/3.0.0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.4.3/ext/yajl
make DESTDIR=
compiling yajl.c
make: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:245: yajl.o] Error 127

make failed, exit code 2

Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/3.0.0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.4.3 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/3.0.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/3.0.0/yajl-ruby-1.4.3/gem_make.out

PLEASE HELP ME

[c-hartmann]

on Linux (Ubuntu) installing package 'ruby-dev' solved the failing building process:

$ sudo apt install ruby-dev
$ sudo gem install wpscan