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I'm using mysql as the database for a rails app and trying to bundle install the mysql2 gem. During the step

Installing mysql2 0.3.19 with native extensions

rather than failing and giving me an error message, it simply hangs and never gives any output at all.

For background I'm installing on a fresh digital ocean droplet that comes with rails installed on Ubuntu 14.04, using ruby 2.0.0 and without specifying a version for the mysql2 gem.

Stephen Mariano Cabrera
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It looks like I had the wrong version of mysql installed. Uninstalling all versions of mysql and then running

sudo apt-get install mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

worked for me.

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  • When I ran this command, it uninstalled already installed mysql 5.6 and installed mysql 5.7. I do not want to install new version of mysql. Any workarounds? – Sumit Desai Jun 13 '17 at 12:28
  • I suspect you can specify the version that you want? Typically package managers will just install the latest version by default but then let you specify a specific version if you need it. I'd look into that. – Stephen Mariano Cabrera Jun 15 '17 at 05:27