[Rubygems-developers] SUPPORT: Unable to update to 0.9.0 rubygems from 0.8.11 on Windows XP Pro

[Wes Gamble]

All, 

I couldn't find a support list for rubygems so my apologies in advance for posting to the developers list.

I have gems 0.8.11 and I attempted gem update --system and got the  output below.

What do I need to do to make the update work?

Do I need to issue the command in the ruby home directory?

Should I just install rubygems 0.9 from scratch? Does that have any implications?

In fact, if I just do a "gem update" command, I get the same error (I believe that's because it's trying to install
the rubygem-update gem).

Thanks,
Wes

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C:\eclipse\workspace>gem -v
0.8.11

C:\eclipse\workspace>gem update --system
Upgrading RubyGems...
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
    syntax error on line 142941, col 1175: `: RubyGems is a package 
management f
ramework for Ruby.  This Gem is a update for the base RubyGems software. 
You mu
st have a base installation of RubyGems before this update can be 
applied.
    autorequire:
    default_executable:
    bindir: bin
    has_rdoc:
    required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version::Requirement
      requirements:
      - - ">"
        - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
          version: 0.0.0
    platform:
    signing_key:
    cert_