How to Install Jekyll on Raspberry Pi 3 (Raspbian Jessie)?

Question

I'm trying to install Jekyll on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian Jessie on it.

I already have the latest LTS nodejs 4.4.7 and I've updated Gem to the latest version by doing:

sudo gem update --system

Then I installed Ruby by doing:

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

However, after doing

ruby -v

I get the version number as ruby 2.1.5. The latest version is 2.3.1.

I tried to install the source code by downloading it from ruby's website then ran the following commands after unzipping the source folder:

./configure
make
sudo make install

After I did that, I went to see what version ruby is, it's still at 2.1.5.

Did anyone else play with Jekyll on a Raspberry Pi 3 before? Though I do have ruby 2.1.5 but I get this error message when I run:

jekyll -v

"Dependency Error: Yikes! It looks like you don't have classifier or one of its dependencies installed. In order to use Jekyll as currently configured, you'll need to install this gem..."

How do I fix this problem? (Sorry, I'm a newbie.)

Andrija Andrija · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-09T09:08:12

I was just setting up Raspberry PI yesterday and it worked fine. I'm running it on Raspberry Pi 3 model B, using RASPBIAN JESSIE (full edition, version May 2016).

Here's commands that I ran from my notes:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get install ruby-full
sudo gem install jekyll
sudo gem install bundler

I'm not sure if I still need apt-get install software-properties-common in there. I was missing add-apt-repository command so I ran this.

How to Install Jekyll on Raspberry Pi 3 (Raspbian Jessie)?

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