C compiler gcc not found while installing passenger and nginx

Question

I\'m trying to install Passenger and Nginx on my VPS.

I followed these instructions and replaced all links of all sources to the current version.

But when i ran

Answer 1

Have the same problem and the following commands solve it; (on ubuntu server)

sudo apt-get install linux-kernel-headers
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Answer 2

If you do have gcc installed, the problem stems from /tmp being mounted as noexec. The error doesn't exactly help, but if you remount /tmp as exec you can install passenger properly.

mount -o remount,rw,exec,nosuid /tmp

Answer 3

same problem here and I found out that I am not able to run command as root has to use

 sudo

and it worked like charm

Answer 4

One quick hack (I struggled a lot with it and finally install pre-built) is to install the pre-built package of Nginx rather than compiling it from source.

For RHEL/CentOS create the file named /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo with the following contents:

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/OS/OSRELEASE/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

In above baseurl replace “OS” with “centos” and “OSRELEASE” with “6”.

Finally execute yum install nginx

Reference https://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#stable

Answer 5

Got the same error. Just installed gcc and it started working:

yum install gcc

Answer 6

Be sure that you sudo, if applicable.

Example:

sudo ./configure ...