[Sliver:~] gkistner$ which ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ which gem
/usr/local/bin/gem
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [powerpc-darwin8.7.0]
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ gem -v
0.9.0
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ sudo gem install rake
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find rake (> 0) in the repository
[Sliver:~] gkistner$ gem install rake
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rake-0.7.1.gem
OK, I get:
which ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
~ $ which gem
/usr/local/bin/gem
~ $ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-09-10) [powerpc-darwin8.7.0]
~ $ gem -v
0.9.0
~ $ sudo gem install rake
Successfully installed rake-0.7.1
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.7.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.1...
~ $
You didn't miss anything obvious. I'm afraid that your problem is
subtle.
--
A young idea is a beautiful and a fragile thing. Attack people, not
ideas.
> I just built ruby 1.8.5 myself, and now rubygems can't find remote gems
> when I run it with sudo privs. It can find the gems when I run it as
> myself, but then it doesn't have priviliges needed to install the gem. Did
> I miss something obvious?
/ ...
> [Sliver:~] gkistner$ sudo gem install rake
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
> Could not find rake (> 0) in the repository
> [Sliver:~] gkistner$ gem install rake
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
> Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rake-0.7.1.gem
Looks like sudo might be giving you a dodgy path. Try this:
$ echo $PATH
$ sudo echo $PATH
Are they different?
--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com
Your source cache may be corrupt.
Try:
rm /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/source_cache
(You also have one in ~/.gem/source_cache)
--
Eric Hodel - drb...@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant
Nope, identical path values.
Eric Hodel wrote:
> Your source cache may be corrupt.
>
> Try:
> rm /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/source_cache
Bingo, that was it! Thanks so much.
(Needed to "sudo rm ..." that file, of course - I include the
information here only for posterity.)