# Error when installing rails on new linode instance

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-installing-rails-on-new-linode-instance/155810>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 17, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-installing-rails-on-new-linode-instance/155810 "2008-12-17T03:28:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasonwold](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e36b37/32.png) [@jasonwold](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonwold)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-installing-rails-on-new-linode-instance/155810/1 "2008-12-17T03:28:41Z")

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Hello All,  
I have just created a new install of Ubuntu 8.10, and have proceeded  
to  
install all of the necessary packages for Ruby on Rails. I installed  
ruby,  
gems, and rails, but when i run rails -v, i get the following error:

root@li41-22:~# rails -v  
-bash: rails: command not found

any guidance would be greatly appreciated

Jason

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**Author:** ![jasonwold](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e36b37/32.png) [@jasonwold](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonwold)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-installing-rails-on-new-linode-instance/155810/2 "2008-12-17T05:37:22Z")

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which rails  
find / -name rails

Is it installed in /usr/local/ ?

do you have /usr/local/bin/ in your path?

echo $PATH

Is rails installed?

gem list

Did you install the gems under a user ? maybe you should have done

sudo gem install rails

Just like on a mac if you use gem install on a none privileged user it  
will install the gems in .gem in the users home directory… And most  
likely you do not have that directory in your path…