Chris Gehlker
9/13/2006 1:14:00 AM
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.
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