# "gem update --system" ignores where I installed rubygems **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 10, 2007, 7:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-ignores-where-i-installed-rubygems/106417 "2007-06-10T07:23:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/levander)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 7:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-ignores-where-i-installed-rubygems/106417/1 "2007-06-10T07:23:41Z")
On my Ubuntu Feisty box a few months ago, I installed rubygems 0.9.0 in /opt/rubygems by: export GEM\_HOME=/opt/rubygems/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 export RUBYLIB=/opt/rubygems/lib/ruby:/opt/rubygems/lib/site\_ruby/1.8 sudo ruby setup.rb --prefix=/opt/rubygems This worked fine for playing with installing a few gems and running some software that accessed them. Coming back to play with them today, I ran: sudo gem update --system From the output of that command, none of the updated files went into /opt/rubygems. Most of them went into /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby, but it looks like other files went other places too. gem went right down into /usr/bin. 1.) I’m thinking I can just read the output of the update command I ran and delete the files manually that it put everywhere? Is there an easier, more sure, way? 2.) Also, I’ve looked on [docs.rubygems.org](http://docs.rubygems.org) and can’t find how to run this command so that the system update will go into /opt/rubygems? ---
**Author:** ![levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/levander)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 11:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-ignores-where-i-installed-rubygems/106417/2 "2007-06-10T11:10:52Z")
On 2007-06-10, levander [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 2.) Also, I’ve looked on [docs.rubygems.org](http://docs.rubygems.org) and can’t find how to run > this command so that the system update will go into /opt/rubygems? Known problem, still unfixed AFAICT. See my report and workaround at URL:http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=9346&group\_id. Be warned, that workaround didn’t quite work for upgrading to 0.9.4 , I had to add a symlink usr → . in my GEM\_PREFIX before it finally put everything in the right place. Jeremy H. ---
**Author:** ![levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/levander)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-ignores-where-i-installed-rubygems/106417/3 "2007-06-12T09:47:55Z")
On Jun 9, 2007, at 22:23, levander wrote: > […] > > From the output of that command, none of the updated files went into > /opt/rubygems. Most of them went into /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby, > but it > looks like other files went other places too. gem went right down > into > /usr/bin. > > […] This really isn’t the best place to report bugs in RubyGems since the developers don’t often read this list. Filing a bug in the bug tracker is the best place to report a bug. Sending an email to the RubyGems developers list is the second best. ---
**Author:** ![levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/levander)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-ignores-where-i-installed-rubygems/106417/4 "2007-06-12T14:51:06Z")
On 2007-06-12, Eric H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > This really isn’t the best place to report bugs in RubyGems since > the developers don’t often read this list. Filing a bug in the bug > tracker is the best place to report a bug. _cough_ [http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=8470&group\_id=126&atid=575](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=8470&group_id=126&atid=575) [http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=9346&group\_id=126&atid=575](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=9346&group_id=126&atid=575) Submitted in February and March respectively. Both still unassigned. ☹ Regards, Jeremy H. ---
**Author:** ![levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@levander](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/levander)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-update-system-ignores-where-i-installed-rubygems/106417/5 "2007-06-15T22:01:05Z")
On Jun 12, 2007, at 05:50, Jeremy H. wrote: > [http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php)? > func=detail&aid=9346&group\_id=126&atid=575 > > Submitted in February and March respectively. Both still unassigned. Par for the course for an all-volunteer project. Bugs get fixed fastest when the party most-interested in the fix writes the fix. (The primary developers can sometimes be bribed, but sometimes they have other things to do.)