From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T01:17:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems Install Problemj

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:41:29 +0900, jim@freeze.org <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
> * Chad Fowler <chadfowler@gmail.com> [2004-10-14 00:36:47 +0900]:
> 
> > Quickly looking at this, it appears that sources-0.0.1.gem is not
> > _readable_ by the user you're logged in as.  Can you check the
> > ownership/permissions on that file in your rubygems install directory?
> 
> Where should that file be? I can't find it:
> 
>    > pwd
>    /disk2/jfn/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems
>    > find *
>    1.8
>    1.8/specifications
>    1.8/cache
>    1.8/gems
> 

It's part of the rubygems installer.  So, it should be in the
directory where you untarred the rubygems distribution.

BTW, I did a test with the same version of Ruby you were using,
installing into a local Ruby in my home directory (Fedora linux) and
wasn't able to reproduce the permissions problem.

Chad