From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T20:04:05+09:00
Subject: gem install problem - II

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Thinking that maybe I should install manually from a downloaded
rubygems, I uninstall it again, then download rubygems-1.0.1.tgz from
rubyforge, unpack it, and issue...<br>
<br>
:/$ ruby setup.rb<br>
<br>
I get a glorious pile of output, of which these are the first two lines:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; install -c -m 0644 rubygems/rubygems_version.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/rubygems_version.rb<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; install -c -m 0644 rubygems/dependency_list.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_list.rb<br>
<br>
Reading through all of this, I nothing that looks like something went
badly wrong - except this:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Skipping RDoc generation, /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc not writable<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Set the GEM_HOME environment variable if you want RDoc
generated&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
How do I do that?<br>
<br>
All of this is happening in a console launched in my user account
Desktop folder. Still there, I decide to test the install, as before,
and issue<br>
:/$ gem help<br>
<br>
I get...<br>
:/$ The program 'gem' is currently not installed.&nbsp; You can install it
by typing:<br>
:/$ sudo apt-get install rubygems<br>
<br>
How can this be? Didn't I just install it? It sure looked like it. How
can I fix this?<br>
<br>
Thanks for any and all help.<br>
<br>
t.<br>
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