# Gem Update Problems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-problems/114167>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 9, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-problems/114167 "2007-09-09T00:47:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roxah)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-problems/114167/1 "2007-09-09T00:47:25Z")

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Hello all,

I’m having problems using gem. I’m on Ubuntu Feisty, and when I try  
running ‘gem update’, it states “Bulk updating gem source index  
[http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)” and hangs there forever. Any idea what the  
problem is?

Thanks in advance!!! – BTR

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**Author:** ![roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roxah)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-problems/114167/2 "2007-09-09T15:58:02Z")

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Lee J. wrote:

> How long have you waited? I had to wait quite some time…
> 
> Have you also tried installing any gems, If so have they install ok?
> 
> Tried re-installing gems also?
> 
> Lee

Hi Lee,

Thanks for responding. I’ve waited upwards to an hour while watching it  
before just going to bed and checking it out the next morning. When I  
try to install a new gem it does the same thing. I first installed gem  
via apt-get, but then I removed that (v 0.9.0) and installed 0.9.4 from  
source.

Thanks! – BTR

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**Author:** ![roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roxah)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-problems/114167/3 "2007-09-10T06:41:53Z")

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On Sep 8, 2007, at 15:47, Bryan R. wrote:

> I’m having problems using gem. I’m on Ubuntu Feisty, and when I try  
> running ‘gem update’, it states “Bulk updating gem source index  
> [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)” and hangs there forever. Any idea what the  
> problem is?

How much memory do you have?

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**Author:** ![roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roxah)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-problems/114167/4 "2007-09-09T00:52:56Z")

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Bryan R. wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I’m having problems using gem. I’m on Ubuntu Feisty, and when I try  
> running ‘gem update’, it states “Bulk updating gem source index  
> [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)” and hangs there forever. Any idea what the  
> problem is?
> 
> Thanks in advance!!! – BTR

How long have you waited? I had to wait quite some time…

Have you also tried installing any gems, If so have they install ok?

Tried re-installing gems also?

Lee

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**Author:** ![roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roxah)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-problems/114167/5 "2007-09-11T00:16:55Z")

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On Sep 9, 2007, at 23:31, Marcin R. wrote:

> the same problem  
> No, it takes about 120MB of RAM for a full index update.

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**Author:** ![roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@roxah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roxah)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 8:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-problems/114167/6 "2007-09-10T08:33:05Z")

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Eric H. wrote:

> best workers get their tools to do the work for them. – Syndicate Wars

you have less then 0.5gb ram, poblem is poor implementation of gem tool,  
it tries to load whole rubyforge gem index into memory i had the same  
problem