gem install debugger -v '1.5.0' fails

Question

I am trying to do bundle in the large project on Mavericks and some gems are broken or something wrong with my environment in spite of this is fresh install of

Answer 1

Sometimes this issue is related with missing package. Most of the time these files (for instance method.h) belongs to package named libXXX-dev.

It's difficult for us to know what the package contains file. I've recently bumped into a utility to deal with this annoying problem (for those who works with apt-get package manager). The tool is apt-file and you can use it as follow:

1. Installation: sudo apt-get install apt-file
2. Updating apt-file db: sudo apt-file update
3. Looking at file: sudo apt-file search 'method.h'

The result might be:

...
libcxxtools-dev: /usr/include/cxxtools/constmethod.h
libcxxtools-dev: /usr/include/cxxtools/method.h
libcxxtools-dev: /usr/include/cxxtools/unit/testmethod.h
libgcj12-dev: /usr/include/c++/4.6/gcj/method.h
libgcj13-dev: /usr/include/c++/4.7/gcj/method.h
...

In the particular case of debuggergem the missing package is `libcxxtools-dev``

I'm on Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux