[Rubygems-developers] gems 0.9.0 on ruby 1.8.2 +ubuntu 6.10 : now way to install to $HOME

[Jim Weirich]

On 11/4/06, Alexander Mikhailian <mikhailian at altern.org> wrote:
>
> > Try this:
> >
> > export GEM_HOME=/home/lowry/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
> > ruby setup.rb all --prefix=/home/lowry
>
> It worked like a charm!
>
> But I could not go further.
>
> Actually, when I run "gem" from the command line, I get
>
> /home/lowry/bin/gem:9:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems
> (LoadError)
>         from /home/lowry/bin/gem:9
>
> It probably looks for the file at "lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb", but
> can't find it.


Rubygems was installed in /home/lowry, right?  Is that where the Ruby
interpreter was installed?  If not, you have to let it know where to find
its libraries.  You can do that by setting an environment variable
(something like RUBY_PATH or RUBY_LIB or RUBY_DIR, perhaps without the
underscore ... check the documentation).

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