Failure to install nokogiri libiconv is missing on Yosemite Mac OS X 10.10

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Trying to install Nokogiri I’m getting the following error ``` Maxims-MacBook-Air:ScrapingTheApple maximveksler$ gem install nokogiri Fetching: nokogiri-1.6.2.1.gem (100%) Building native extensions. This could take a while... Building nokogiri using packaged libraries. ERROR: Error installing nokogiri: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /Users/maximveksler/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby extconf.rb Building nokogiri using packaged libraries. ----- libiconv is missing. please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for help with installing dependencies. ----- *** 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}/lib --with-make-prog --without…

Accepted Answer

The nokogiri install tutorial provides the solution:

```
# bash
brew unlink gcc
gem uninstall nokogiri
xcode-select --install
gem install nokogiri
```

If you don't have Xcode 6.1, yet, you may install it from the apple developer download site (section additional tools), as described in this blog post.

Failure to install nokogiri libiconv is missing on Yosemite Mac OS X 10.10

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