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…
:/$ ruby setup.rb
I get a glorious pile of output, of which these are the first two lines:
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/rubygems_version.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/rubygems_version.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/dependency_list.rb
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency_list.rb
Reading through all of this, I nothing that looks like something went
badly wrong - except this:
Skipping RDoc generation, /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc not writable
Set the GEM_HOME environment variable if you want RDoc
generated
How do I do that?
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
:/$ gem help
I get…
:/$ The program ‘gem’ is currently not installed. You can install it
by typing:
:/$ sudo apt-get install rubygems
How can this be? Didn’t I just install it? It sure looked like it. How
can I fix this?
Thanks for any and all help.
t.
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