---
title: "Installing the Nokogiri ruby gem on Debian"
kind: article
slug: installing-the-nokogiri-ruby-gem-on-debian
created_at: 2010-03-25
tags:
  - Linux
  - Ruby
  - debian
  - rubygems
  - nokogiri
  - gems
---
To install Nokogiri on a Debian system you need some system packages in place. This snippet will get you going quickly.
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First, install the necessary debian packages if you don't have them already:

    apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Then you can install nokogiri without any problem with `gem install nokogiri`