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d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

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Error updating ruby gem: Failed to build gem native extension.

I'm trying to understand why I'm getting this error when running gem update:

Updating installed gems
Updating net-pop
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing net-pop:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: /home/brightchip/.gem/ruby/2.7.0/gems/digest-3.0.0/ext/digest
/usr/bin/ruby -I /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0 -r ./siteconf20210113-639621-5rxmfr.rb extconf.rb
creating Makefile

current directory: /home/brightchip/.gem/ruby/2.7.0/gems/digest-3.0.0/ext/digest
make "DESTDIR=" clean

current directory: /home/brightchip/.gem/ruby/2.7.0/gems/digest-3.0.0/ext/digest
make "DESTDIR="
compiling digest.c
linking shared-object digest.so

current directory: /home/brightchip/.gem/ruby/2.7.0/gems/digest-3.0.0/ext/digest
make "DESTDIR=" install
/usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 digest.so ./.gem.20210113-639621-1kv3df0
installing digest libraries
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/usr/include/ruby-2.7.0/ruby/digest.h': Permission denied
make: *** [Makefile:204: /usr/include/ruby-2.7.0/ruby/digest.h] Error 1

make install failed, exit code 2

It's probably harmless but I always like to understand why I get errors.

Here is the output of gem env:

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.1.4
  - RUBY VERSION: 2.7.2 (2020-10-01 patchlevel 137) [x86_64-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0
  - USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/brightchip/.gem/ruby/2.7.0
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby
  - GIT EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/git
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
  - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /home/brightchip/.gem/specs
  - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /etc
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0
     - /home/brightchip/.gem/ruby/2.7.0
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - "gem" => "--user-install"
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/
  - SHELL PATH:
     - /usr/local/sbin
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /usr/bin
     - /opt/cuda/bin
     - /opt/cuda/integration/nsight-compute
     - /opt/cuda/integration/nsight-systems
     - /usr/lib/jvm/default/bin
     - /usr/bin/site_perl
     - /usr/bin/vendor_perl
     - /usr/bin/core_perl
     - /home/datapool/bin
     - /opt/cuda/bin
     - /home/brightchip/.gem/ruby/2.7.0/bin
     - /home/brightchip/.local/bin

Any thoughts or solution?