From: kazaam <kazaam@...>
Date: 2007-11-02T03:45:03+09:00
Subject: I totally messed up rubygems (deleted the sources gem) and now I can't install any gem anymore

Okay I had some troubles today and wanted to do a total reinstallation of rubygems and all gems I had. So I removed rubygems with:
	sudo apt-get remove --purge rubygems
and then I did the big mistake and deleted the whole gems folder:
	sudo rm -rd /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems

Now I have a big problem. I reinstalled rubygems but when I wanna install any gem I'm getting an error like this:
       $: sudo gems install hpricot
	/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — sources (LoadError)
          from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’
          from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:462:in `sources’
          [..]

I now found out the problem is I need a sources gem? I found out that I still have this gem in the gems/cache folder:
	/var/lib/gems/1.8/cache/sources-0.0.1.gem 

But how to install? If I do
	 sudo gem install -local /var/lib/gems/1.8/cache/sources-0.0.1.gem

I also get the same error like above:
	/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — sources (LoadError)

I have no idea how to fix this now? Can someone help me with this?

greets
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kazaam <kazaam@oleco.net>