From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-11-29T07:46:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to [un]install old gems

Emmanuel wrote:
> On Oct 2, 9:54 am, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 1, 2008, at 23:35 , Mitko Kostov wrote:
>>
>>> I found a solution, really silly though.
>>> bash$ gem list -d
>>> bash$ sudo gem uninstall --install-dir
>>> /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/
>>> gems/1.8
>>> <package>
>> Those gems were bundled by apple and are not meant to be removed by  
>> users. This allows apple to do their own updates of the system gems.  
>> You shouldn't remove them.
> 
> So I get the same error but as a new user on OSX , and experienced on
> Ruby, I don t get why we should not? This sounds like an Apple thing
> and now I am stuck with that error. I have not gotten even one update
> on ruby package for now a year.. so I cannot just wait on apple to
> update. So what is the process for me now to get rid of that error?
> 
> 
> 

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