Another wierd error whilst installing gems?

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what could cause this error in terminal when updating gems?

Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
    Permission denied -
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rb-appscript-0.3.0.gem
[marcrice:~] marcrice%

please help!

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libsfan01 wrote:

what could cause this error in terminal when updating gems?

Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
    Permission denied -
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rb-appscript-0.3.0.gem
[marcrice:~] marcrice%

please help!

Well, going by the "permission denied" message I'd guess that you don't have the access rights to the directory. On my Linux box, at least, I have to have root authority to modify anything in /usr. Perhaps you need to log on as root or use sudo when you execute the gem command?