From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-09-13T11:27:00+09:00
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

Your source cache may be corrupt.

Try:

rm /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/source_cache

(You also have one in ~/.gem/source_cache)

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