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Dependency error on jekyll-remote-theme around libcurl #526

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@SeanKilleen

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This issue affects

  • Building sites locally

What did you do (e.g., steps to reproduce)

I'm assisting someone in getting their site converted from Blogger to GitHub.

  • Clone the repo (in this case, dennisdoomen\dennisdoomen.github.io)
  • Check the gemfile (it only includes gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins)
  • Run bundle install
  • Run bundle update github-pages
  • See no errors
  • Run bundle exec jekyll serve

What did you expect to happen?

  • The site to be built & shown locally

What happened instead?

I see an error:

Dependency Error: Yikes! It looks like you don't have jekyll-remote-theme or one of its dependencies installed. In order to use Jekyll as currently configured, you'll need to install this gem. The full error message from Ruby is: 'Could not open library 'libcurl': The specified module could not be found. . Could not open library 'libcurl.dll': The specified module could not be found. . Could not open library 'libcurl.so.4': The specified module could not be found. . Could not open library 'libcurl.so.4.dll': The specified module could not be found. ' If you run into trouble, you can find helpful resources at
https://jekyllrb.com/help/!

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  1. changed the title [-]Dependency error on jekyll-remote-theme[/-] [+]Dependency error on jekyll-remote-theme around libcurl[/+] on Feb 4, 2018
  2. SeanKilleen commented on Feb 4, 2018

    @SeanKilleen
    Author

    I thought this might have been an issue with PowerShell using curl as an alias for Web-Invoke so I:

    • Removed the alias from my Powershell Profile
    • Confirmed that curl no longer worked.
    • Installed curl via chocolatey using choco install curl.
    • Restarted
    • Attempted bundle exec jekyll serve again.

    No luck.

  3. SeanKilleen commented on Feb 4, 2018

    @SeanKilleen
    Author

    A workaround for me was described in this post:

    • Downloaded libcurl DLLs
    • Copied them into my ruby install's bin folder

    This appears to get me past the hurdle, but it feels a biiiiiit hacky.

  4. parkr commented on Dec 4, 2019

    @parkr
    Contributor

    I know this is an old issue, but this should now no longer be a problem! jekyll-remote-theme migrated to use Ruby's built-in Net::HTTP library which does not use/require libcurl: benbalter/jekyll-remote-theme#26

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