# Capistrano windows \<Zlib::buffError\>

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-windows-zlib-bufferror/104590>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 20, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-windows-zlib-bufferror/104590 "2007-05-20T03:47:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gino](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@gino](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gino)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-windows-zlib-bufferror/104590/1 "2007-05-20T03:47:08Z")

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can’t istall capistrano, it gives me that error, buffer error  
does anyone knows how to fix this problem, I think that only on windows  
happens

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**Author:** ![gino](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@gino](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gino)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-windows-zlib-bufferror/104590/2 "2007-05-20T04:32:48Z")

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update your rubygems package, even if you just installed it

gem update --system

info from this site

> **[Zlib:BufError](https://dontrepeatyourself.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/zlibbuferror/)**
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> So, I started installing Capistrano yesterday using: gems install capistrano Annoyingly, the net-ssh dependency failed with the hideous error message: ERROR: While executing gem … (Zlib::BufError) …

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**Author:** ![gino](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@gino](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gino)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-windows-zlib-bufferror/104590/3 "2007-05-20T17:32:32Z")

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Dion H. wrote:

> update your rubygems package, even if you just installed it
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> gem update --system
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> info from this site  
> [Zlib:BufError | Don't Repeat Yourself](http://dontrepeatyourself.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/zlibbuferror/)

Thank you very much, it worked