# Another wierd error whilst installing gems?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-wierd-error-whilst-installing-gems/82876>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 22, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-wierd-error-whilst-installing-gems/82876 "2007-01-22T02:20:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/libsfan01)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-wierd-error-whilst-installing-gems/82876/1 "2007-01-22T02:20:37Z")

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what could cause this error in terminal when updating gems?

Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EACCES)  
Permission denied -  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rb-appscript-0.3.0.gem  
[marcrice:~] marcrice%

please help!

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**Author:** ![libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/libsfan01)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/another-wierd-error-whilst-installing-gems/82876/2 "2007-01-22T02:31:37Z")

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libsfan01 wrote:

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Well, going by the “permission denied” message I’d guess that you don’t  
have the access rights to the directory. On my Linux box, at least, I  
have to have root authority to modify anything in /usr. Perhaps you need  
to log on as root or use sudo when you execute the gem command?