# Fail to Install Gems - My First Gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fail-to-install-gems-my-first-gems/113530>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 1, 2007, 6:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fail-to-install-gems-my-first-gems/113530 "2007-09-01T06:58:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/foolishbrat)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 6:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fail-to-install-gems-my-first-gems/113530/1 "2007-09-01T06:58:09Z")

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Dear all,

I was trying to install first ruby gems.  
I have successfully done the following:

$ ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/home/mystuff  
$ ruby setup.rb setup

But when I run this command:

$ ruby setup.rb install

…sth…  
As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed.  
Searching $LOAD\_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a  
while)…  
…done.  
No library stubs found.

Consequently I can’t install antying like that with Gems.  
“gem” command doesn’t work.

$ gem --help  
/home/ewijaya/.ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:32:in  
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- sources (LoadError) from /home/ewijaya/.ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in`require’  
from  
/home/ewijaya/.ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source\_info\_cache.rb:6

How can I resolve this problem?

I am using:  
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]

–  
Edward

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**Author:** ![foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/foolishbrat)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 7:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fail-to-install-gems-my-first-gems/113530/2 "2007-09-01T07:36:14Z")

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On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Foolish Brat wrote:

> $ ruby setup.rb install
> 
> source\_info\_cache.rb:6  
> You probably need to:

$ export GEM\_HOME=/home/mystuff/gems

Corey

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**Author:** ![foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/foolishbrat)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fail-to-install-gems-my-first-gems/113530/3 "2007-09-01T07:58:01Z")

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Corey J. wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Foolish Brat wrote:
> 
> > $ ruby setup.rb install
> > 
> > source\_info\_cache.rb:6  
> > You probably need to:
> 
> $ export GEM\_HOME=/home/mystuff/gems
> 
> Corey

Hi Corey,

Yes I already have that, in my .bash\_profile

export GEM\_HOME=/home/ewijaya/.rubygem:

Which then I run this command:  
$ ruby setup.rb config --prefix=/home/ewijaya/.rubygem  
…etc…

but the problem still remains.

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**Author:** ![foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/foolishbrat)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fail-to-install-gems-my-first-gems/113530/4 "2007-09-10T04:52:47Z")

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On Aug 31, 2007, at 22:58, Foolish Brat wrote:

> > Corey
> 
> but the problem still remains.

You want GEM\_PATH, not GEM\_HOME.

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**Author:** ![foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@foolishbrat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/foolishbrat)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fail-to-install-gems-my-first-gems/113530/5 "2007-09-01T11:04:28Z")

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Had this recently.  
Search your system for sources-0.0.1.gem  
then:  
gem install /path/to/sources-0.0.1.gem

YMMV.

MarkT