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tee
tee

Reputation: 725

installing gems using rvm

When trying to install gems using rvm i get this error

$ rvm gem install sproutcore
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
Permission denied - /home/tee/.gem/specs

but it says on the rvm site that you should not use sudo so I'm not sure whats wrong with my setup

when i type $GEM_HOME it shows that the directory is pointing to the rvm dir

$GEM_HOME
bash: /home/tee/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p302: is a directory

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Upvotes: 23

Views: 63604

Answers (5)

freemoth
freemoth

Reputation: 171

I was having the same problem. I redid this command:

source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

from a new terminal window (as suggested when installing rvm and possibly overlooked when I was installing rvm) and things seemed to be fine after that

Upvotes: 15

Rodrigo Dias
Rodrigo Dias

Reputation: 1340

I was having the same problem because the RVM was installed globally, in /usr/local/rvm , so it had no permission to install gems in ruby directory.

The workaround is to use Single User Installation, this will install your rvm in your user's home directtory(~/.rvm) so it will have all necessary permissions to install the gemsets and gems.

If you want to know the subject better read https://rvm.io/rvm/install . You will see that Single User Install is the recommended .

Upvotes: 2

Rishav Rastogi
Rishav Rastogi

Reputation: 15492

http://rvm.io/set/gem/

or just 

$ rvm <ruby_version>
$ gem install sproutcode

This should definitely work.

Upvotes: 9

tee
tee

Reputation: 725

its probably not the correct way of doing things but I found that using rvmsudo resolved the issue, eg

rvmsudo gem install rails

Upvotes: 2

Simone Carletti
Simone Carletti

Reputation: 176552

There's a permission issue with your .gem folder. Make sure the owner is your current user.

sudo chown -R tee /home/tee/.gem

If it doesn't work, remove the .gem folder. It is automatically created when you update the gem cache.

Also, make sure you never used sudo with rvm.

Upvotes: 20

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