On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Dandy wrote: > $ sudo gem update --systemERROR: While executing gem ... > (RuntimeError) gem update --system is disabled on Debian, because > it will overwrite the content of the rubygems Debian package, and > might break your Debian system in subtle ways. The Debian-supported > way to update rubygems is through apt-get, using Debian official > repositories.If you really know what you are doing, you can still > update rubygems by setting the REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM environment > variable, but please remember that this is completely unsupported by > Debian.
Wow. How much control do you have over this server? Can you remove the Debian gem package and re-install gem from source? My sysadmin skills are limited to Mac OS X Server, Solaris, and Ubuntu, so I don't have any more specific advice for you there. If you can, I would take everything off -- gem, Ruby, everything except the build tools basically. Then use the RVM installer to install Ruby and gem in one go. Here's my (Ubuntu) recipe for that (do all of this as root): aptitude safe-upgrade aptitude update aptitude install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion libcurl4-openssl-dev apache2 apache2-dev apache2-prefork-dev libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev mysql-server mysql-dev (preceding should be all one line, naturally) bash < <(curl -sk https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer) log out and back in rvm install 1.9.2 rvm default 1.9.2 gem update --system gem install passenger (follow instructions from the installer) passenger-install-apache2-module (follow instructions from the installer) If you don't have aptitude, you can substitute apt-get for it where noted above, I have used them interchangeably in the past. Walter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
