comp.lang.ruby

Tim Hunter

1/22/2007 1:31:00 AM

libsfan01 wrote:
> what could cause this error in terminal when updating gems?
>
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rub...
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
> Permission denied -
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rb-appscript-0.3.0.gem
> [marcrice:~] marcrice%
>
>
> please help!
>
>
>
Well, going by the "permission denied" message I'd guess that you don't
have the access rights to the directory. On my Linux box, at least, I
have to have root authority to modify anything in /usr. Perhaps you need
to log on as root or use sudo when you execute the gem command?