Dependency error on jekyll-remote-theme around libcurl

[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/!

Additional information

• Link to the live site (if applicable): http://dennisdoomen.github.io
• Link to the source repo (if applicable): http://github.com/dennisdoomen/dennisdoomen.github.io.
• Ruby version: ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x64-mingw32]
• Bundler version: Bundler version 1.15.1
• OS: Windows 10

[SeanKilleen]

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.

[SeanKilleen]

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.

[parkr]

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