From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T10:20:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't install gems with sudo

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$ 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

Looks like sudo might be giving you a dodgy path. Try this:

$ echo $PATH
$ sudo echo $PATH

Are they different?

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Paul Lutus
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