From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-05-28T02:23:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't uninstall gems on Ubuntu

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Nation, Carey <Carey.Nation@turner.com> wrote:
> Well, just a couple of guesses here, but:
>
> It installed to your home directory because you don't have write rights
> to the system directories. If you have sudo, sudo gem install net-ssh
> might have worked.
>
> The second warning on the install probably also tells you why it won't
> uninstall.

Actually, I think that it's because gem uninstall defaults to
installing from the system gem directory.

>  WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 and
>            /usr/bin aren't both writable.

I suspect that

$gem uninstall -i~/.gem net-ssh

might work.

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