Rails - Oct 2007 - "permission deinied" when installing Rails on OS/X

When I do a

  gem install -r rails --include-dependencies

it works fine on Linux, but when I do it from a OS/X bash shell, I get
the error message

  Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/
activesupport-1.4.4.gem

The error is reproducible. What could be the problem?

Ronald


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dear sir

you have to use sudo when installing gems.


On Oct 24, 3:52 pm, Ronny
<ro.naldfi.sc...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> When I do a
>
>   gem install -r rails --include-dependencies
>
> it works fine on Linux, but when I do it from a OS/X bash shell, I get
> the error message
>
>   Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/
> activesupport-1.4.4.gem
>
> The error is reproducible. What could be the problem?
>
> Ronald

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put the word "sudo" before the word "gem" and it will ask
for your password
and should then work fine.


On 10/24/07, Ronny
<ro.naldfi.scher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> When I do a
>
>   gem install -r rails --include-dependencies
>
> it works fine on Linux, but when I do it from a OS/X bash shell, I get
> the error message
>
>   Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/
> activesupport-1.4.4.gem
>
> The error is reproducible. What could be the problem?
>
> Ronald
>
>
> >
>
>
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On Oct 24, 2550 BE, at 17:52, Ronny wrote:
> The error is reproducible. What could be the problem?
You probably should use sudo.
sudo  gem install rails --include-dependencies

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On Oct 24, 3:58 pm,
"gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
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wrote:
> you have to use sudo when installing gems.
I see!

But there is one strange thing: When I enter the password of my Mac OS
administrator account,
it is rejected by sudo! First I thought I used the wrong password, but
no: I can reproducibly switch
to my Mac Administrator account using this password, but when I supply
it to ''sudo'', it is not
accepted.

It looks to me like a "mismatch of account names": When I list /etc/
passwd from my bash shell,
I get (of course) the user "root" as administrator. From the Mac
viewpoint, I have no user named
"root", but I have an user with name "Administrator" having
administrator privileges (and of this,
I know the password of course). However I can not remember having ever
created a separate
password for the root user in the "Unix compatibility box".

Any idea how I could resolve this?

Ronald


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I was able to narrow the problem further:

First, I found that I can not do a switch user to root (because of
rejecting the password, as explained in my
previous posting), but I can do, for example, a

  su admin

and this account corresponds to my Mac OS/X administrator account. So
I tried first

  gem install -r rails --include-dependencies

from the admin account - but now I get the error message

  Could not find rails (> 0) in any repository

This puzzles me, because on Linux, the same works fine. Note that I
usually get this error message only
when I forget the ''-r'' option in the gem install command.

A side remark regarding the suggestion of using "sudo" for the
install: I found that even though I can do
a "su admin", when I do a

  sudo -u admin ....

the same password which was happily accepted by "su", is now rejected.


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If you run sudo, you must enter the password for the user you''re
running
sudo for. So, if you''re logged in as user john, and you type sudo 
something, you must enter john''s password.

Hope that helps..
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