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sathish k.

2011-Sep-14 14:27 UTC

Error in Gem update or install

Hi,

  I am newbie to rails, i install ruby and dependences like ruby-dev
libopenssl-ruby1.8 irb ri rdoc but i try install rubygems is perfect ,
but i update or install any gem means , it show the below error.


$ gem update --system
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Zlib::GzipFile::Error)     not in gzip
format


i google search it, it says check like

$gem -v   =>  1.8.10

$gem sources  => *** CURRENT SOURCES ***  http://rubygems.org/

$gem env =>

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.8.10
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i686-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.8
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
     - /home/encore/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org/


$whereis gem =>  gem: /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem



 sorry cant indentify it what error ,pls if you what error suggest me...

thanks in advance

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Mahalingam Mr

2011-Sep-15 13:05 UTC

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Re: Error in Gem update or install

sathish k. wrote in post #1021926:> Hi,
>
>   I am newbie to rails, i install ruby and dependences like ruby-dev
> libopenssl-ruby1.8 irb ri rdoc but i try install rubygems is perfect ,
> but i update or install any gem means , it show the below error.
>
>
> $ gem update --system
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Zlib::GzipFile::Error)     not in gzip
> format

>  sorry cant indentify it what error ,pls if you what error suggest me...
>
> thanks in advance

Have you installed the Zlib library. Seems the Zlib library is missing.

# apt-get install zlib1g-dev (ubuntu or debian)

This might help you.

TML

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