From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T00:03:12+09:00
Subject: Re: gem install failure - probably easy to fix

Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear Tom, 
>
>
>   
>> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)                 
>>     Permission denied - /home/tomc/.ri/cache/.doc_dirs
>>     
>
> you don't have sufficient writing rights on that file, probably
> because you installed the gems as normal user rather than with sudo
> privileges.
>   
Actually, no. I did install rubygems as root user. THEN I discovered 
that "sudo gem install..." wouldn't work, but "gem install..." would.

I don't understand what happened.

t.
> There is by default no "root" user in Ubuntu like in other Linuxes,
> but you can create one and use "gem install" as root:
>
> sudo passwd root
>
>
>
>  - and then do all sorts of (potentially dangerous things ..)
>
> (look here:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel 
>   


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