From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T10:30:40+09:00
Subject: Re: another wierd error whilst installing gems?

libsfan01 wrote:
> what could cause this error in terminal when updating gems?
>
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> 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?