Can't install gems with sudo - comp.lang.ruby

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Gavin Kistner

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More options Sep 12 2006, 8:42 pm

Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby

From: "Gavin Kistner" <gavin.kist...@anark.com>

Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:42:10 +0900

Local: Tues, Sep 12 2006 8:42 pm

Subject: Can't install gems with sudo

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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$ 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

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