# Problems with gem system update

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/problems-with-gem-system-update/48222>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [10 August 2008 05:36 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/problems-with-gem-system-update/48222 "2008-08-10T05:36:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_Calleiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jason\_Calleiro](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jason_Calleiro)\
**Post date:** [10 August 2008 05:36 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/problems-with-gem-system-update/48222/1 "2008-08-10T05:36:48Z")

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Im fairly new to ruby and have been playing around with rails, merb and  
other gems. today i ran sudo gem update --system and im getting the  
following error.  
Any idea what can be causing this?

Updating RubyGems  
WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for:  
&nbsp;&nbsp;[http://merbivore.com](http://merbivore.com)

RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.  
Updating metadata for 120 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)  
........................................................................................................................  
complete  
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;bad response Not Found 404 ([http://merbivore.com/Marshal.4.8](http://merbivore.com/Marshal.4.8))

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![David\_Collier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@David\_Collier](https://rubytalk.org/u/David_Collier)\
**Post date:** [10 August 2008 11:01 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/problems-with-gem-system-update/48222/2 "2008-08-10T11:01:34Z")

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maybe because there is no merbivore gems repo any more?  
try:

gem sources

# then remove the other sources.

gem sources -r [http://merbivore.com](http://merbivore.com)

if that doenst work then you can manually remove them

vi ~/.gemrc

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> :update\_sources: true  
> :sources:  
> - [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
> :verbose: true
> 
> hth
> 
> /dc
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> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Jason Calleiro \<jason@ourscene.com\> wrote:
> 
> > Im fairly new to ruby and have been playing around with rails, merb and  
> > other gems. today i ran sudo gem update --system and im getting the  
> > following error.  
> > Any idea what can be causing this?
> > 
> > Updating RubyGems  
> > WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for:  
> > [http://merbivore.com](http://merbivore.com)
> > 
> > RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.  
> > Updating metadata for 120 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)  
> > ........................................................................................................................  
> > complete  
> > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
> > &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;bad response Not Found 404 ([http://merbivore.com/Marshal.4.8\](http://merbivore.com/Marshal.4.8%5C))
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!  
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> > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/\](http://www.ruby-forum.com/%5C).