Ruby gems on ubuntu

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I removed rubygems entirely to start out clean. When I reinstalled the package (via Synaptic), I ran this from the command line.

$gem -v
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- sources (LoadError)
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_info_cache.rb:6
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:12
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:112:in `manage_gems'
        from /usr/bin/gem:10

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MistryMan4000@Yahoo.com wrote:

I removed rubygems entirely to start out clean. When I reinstalled the package (via Synaptic), I ran this from the command line.

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Is Ubunutu installing it under /usr/lib, instead of /usr/local/lib?

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Hi,

I had the same problem on Ubuntu Feisty and Gutsy and corrected the
problem by setting the GEM_HOME environment variable to :

GEM_HOME=/var/lib/gems/1.8

Chris

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