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grantperry
grantperry

Reputation: 149

when installing gems "Error: Permission denied rb_sysopen" Arch Linux

I am trying to install rails and I have already got ruby

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x86_64-linux]

when I run gem install rails I get 

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.3.0/nokogiri-1.6.8/gem_make.out

then exactly the same thing if I try to install nokogiri

I'm new to ruby/rails. Thank you in advance

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4954

Answers (1)

user1116933
user1116933

Reputation: 469

You are having a permissions issue attempting to open

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.3.0/nokogiri-1.6.8/gem_make.out

Running this will most likely install correctly, but you may want to fix whatever the permission issue is instead:

sudo gem install rails

Upvotes: 3

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