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Blog » gem update —system is disabled on Debian

Posted on 26 Apr 2009 15:03

You are developing Ruby on Rails and you use Ubuntu Intrepid.

You somehow get

Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.1 (you have 1.2.0). Please `gem update --system` and try again.

and you go on:

gem update --system

You end up reading the error message:

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)                                                 
    gem update --system is disabled on Debian. RubyGems can be updated using the official Debian repositories by aptitude or apt-get.

RubyGems 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 provides the solution.

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