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Chris Gehlker  
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 More options Sep 12 2006, 9:13 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
From: Chris Gehlker <canyon...@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:13:48 +0900
Local: Tues, Sep 12 2006 9:13 pm
Subject: Re: Can't install gems with sudo

On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> 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

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.


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