Adventures in Nerdville

This error gets reported and people seemed to be having problems with it in the forums:

ERROR: Error installing mysql:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install mysql
extconf.rb:1:in `require’: no such file to load — mkmf (LoadError)
from extconf.rb:1

FIX:

sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev

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