# Cannot exec jekyll

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/cannot-exec-jekyll/9434>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 21, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/cannot-exec-jekyll/9434 "2024-09-21T20:36:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![george-gca](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/george-gca/32/5301_2.png) [@george-gca](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/george-gca)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/cannot-exec-jekyll/9434/6 "2025-04-02T14:45:13Z")

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My recommendation is

> [@Cannot Build Site](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/cannot-build-site/9663/12):
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> The best recommendation I can give you is to use [devcontainers](https://containers.dev/supporting). You can see a simple working example in [this repository](https://github.com/levxyca/diciotech/blob/main/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json). Note that you must have [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/) installed for it to work. The main advantage is that it will create a docker container with all the dependencies installed inside, so you won’t need to worry about messing with your system installed packages. If you use [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/), it is as simple as opening the main directory and letting it install everything for you. To test it, clone the reposito…

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