Error installing charlock_holmes : Error installing GITLAB - gitlab

Question

I am trying to install GITLAB. I get this error executing "sudo gem install charlock_holmes --version '0.6.9'" (section Install Gems)
GEOGIT:/geogit/Administrative_Tools # sudo gem install charlock_holmes --version '0.6.9'
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing charlock_holmes:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.9 extconf.rb
checking for main() in -licui18n... no
which: no brew in (/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin)
checking for main() in -licui18n... no
***************************************************************************************
*********** icu required (brew install icu4c or apt-get install libicu-dev) ***********
***************************************************************************************
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.9
--with-icu-dir
--without-icu-dir
--with-icu-include
--without-icu-include=${icu-dir}/include
--with-icu-lib
--without-icu-lib=${icu-dir}/
--with-icui18nlib
--without-icui18nlib
--with-icui18nlib
--without-icui18nlib
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/charlock_holmes-0.6.9 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/charlock_holmes-0.6.9/ext/charlock_holmes/gem_make.out
Someone, can help me debug those logs and error?

Answer 1

This looks like issue 1952
It was actually weirdness with the way my ubuntu VPS is commissioned. Mine did not come with a C compiler or libdev obviously.
The problem fix I found was to install libdev first, then the GCC
Then apt-get install libicu-dev.
Update 2015: additional comments include:
yum install libicu-devel worked for me
You just need to make sure "patch" is installed (yum install patch) then it should work

Answer 2

For MacOS install the following dependency:
brew install icu4c

Answer 3

According to the documentation (https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install/installation.md) the package libicu-dev is required
Install it with "apt-get install libicu-dev" and then charlock_holmes could be installed

Answer 4

I used "yum install libicu-devel" and then I could install charlock_holmes

Answer 5

I got the same mistake on a Centos 5.4 server, the yum repository only have the icu version 3.6, so i have to search and install manually the library icu 4.2 which solve the problem. In case someone else need to know how to do it, i recommend to check this link http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/tags/release-4-2-1/readme.html#HowToBuildUNIX

Answer 6

I had kind of the same problem: when I was trying to install charlock_holmes gem, I had this error:
charlock_holmes-0.7.3/mkmf.log
have_library: checking for main() in -licui18n... -------------------- no
I fixed it by running the first command of #VonC:
sudo apt-get install libicu-dev
Hope I helped someone!