# Jekyll Partial Success Installing on macOS 10.15.3

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-partial-success-installing-on-macos-10-15-3/4083>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-partial-success-installing-on-macos-10-15-3/4083 "2020-03-18T12:14:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![EricS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d9b06d/32.png) [@EricS](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/EricS)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-partial-success-installing-on-macos-10-15-3/4083/1 "2020-03-18T12:14:06Z")

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New here to the forums - so if there is an topic that already addresses the below, please point me in that direction.

I am fairly new to working with Ruby etc. in a macOS terminal environment. When I follow the Jekyll install instructions as given on the Jekyll site everything seems to work fine until I run the " gem install --user-install bundler jekyll" command.

See below.

Am I missing a dependency somewhere? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

````auto
    gem install --user-install bundler jekyll
    Successfully installed bundler-2.1.4
    Building native extensions. This could take a while...
    ERROR: Error installing jekyll:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        current directory: /Users/Eric/.gem/ruby/2.6.0/gems/http_parser.rb-0.6.0/ext/ruby_http_parser
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/ruby -I /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0 -r ./siteconf20200317-12383-w3d9nm.rb extconf.rb
    creating Makefile

    current directory: /Users/Eric/.gem/ruby/2.6.0/gems/http_parser.rb-0.6.0/ext/ruby_http_parser
    make "DESTDIR=" clean
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/make-0.3.1/bin/make:4:in `<top (required)>': undefined local variable or method `make' for main:Object (NameError)
        from /usr/local/bin/make:23:in `load'
        from /usr/local/bin/make:23:in `<main>'

    current directory: /Users/Eric/.gem/ruby/2.6.0/gems/http_parser.rb-0.6.0/ext/ruby_http_parser
    make "DESTDIR="
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/make-0.3.1/bin/make:4:in `<top (required)>': undefined local variable or method `make' for main:Object (NameError)
        from /usr/local/bin/make:23:in `load'
        from /usr/local/bin/make:23:in `<main>'

    make failed, exit code 1

    Gem files will remain installed in /Users/Eric/.gem/ruby/2.6.0/gems/http_parser.rb-0.6.0 for inspection.
    Results logged to /Users/Eric/.gem/ruby/2.6.0/extensions/universal-darwin-19/2.6.0/http_parser.rb-0.6.0/gem_make.out
    1 gem installed
    ```
````

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**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-partial-success-installing-on-macos-10-15-3/4083/2 "2020-03-18T15:34:47Z")

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looks like you have ruby installed in 2 place - /usr and /library? not sure how or why this happens but it is fairly common.

Try uninstalling ruby and re-installing it. There are several posts about this over the last few months, try looking for those to see what they did.

How did you install ruby initially?

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**Author:** ![EricS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d9b06d/32.png) [@EricS](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/EricS)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-partial-success-installing-on-macos-10-15-3/4083/3 "2020-03-18T16:06:33Z")

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Thanks for the reply @rdyar - I followed all the instructions here: [https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/macos/](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/macos/) when I tried to install Jekyll. At this point, with all my messing around, I would like to get everything back to a default state and start from scratch.