# Gems Issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 12, 2007, 5:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-issue/88505 "2007-03-12T05:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 5:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-issue/88505/1 "2007-03-12T05:55:36Z")
Hello: I’m trying to install a gem package, but its not working. Here’s what I see: C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” install --remote ruby- activeldap Attempting remote installation of ‘ruby-activeldap’ Install required dependency log4r? [Yn] Y ERROR: While executing gem … (OpenURI::HTTPError) 404 Not Found > From what I’ve read, some say this means the gems repository is > temporarily off-line or there are some network issues. I don’t think > this is the case though. I’ve tried on a number of occasions over the > last week with no success and I can access the repository listing just > fine. I’ve also seen some suggestion that I may need to upgrade my version of ruby and/or gem. I’m a little reticent to do this, but I will if someone can tell me with some certainty this is the issue. Here are the versions I’m currently running: C:\>ruby -v ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] C:\>gem -v C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” -v 0.8.10 All suggestions are welcome. Thanks for your time. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-issue/88505/2 "2007-03-18T20:36:08Z")
On Mar 12, 3:29 pm, “bbiker” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Have you tried “gem query -n ruby-activeldap -r” to verify that it exist if > it does you can “gem install ruby\_activeldap” the -r is not necessary unless > you have a local copy of the gemspec > > The correct syntax if “gem install ruby\_activeldap -r” Hi bbiker: Thanks for the response. It looks like I can see the gem package on the server. Here’s what I see: C:\>gem query -n ruby-activeldap -r C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” query -n ruby-activeldap - r \*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\* ruby-activeldap (0.8.1, 0.8.0, 0.7.4, 0.7.3, 0.7.2, 0.7.1, 0.7.0, 0.6.0, 0.5.9, 0.5.8, 0.5.7, 0.5.5, 0.5.4, 0.5.3, 0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5.0, 0.4.4, 0.4.3, 0.4.2, 0.4.1) Ruby/ActiveLdap is a object-oriented API to LDAP ruby-activeldap-debug (0.7.4, 0.7.3, 0.7.2, 0.7.1, 0.7.0, 0.6.0, 0.5.9, 0.5.8, 0.5.7, 0.5.6, 0.5.5) Ruby/ActiveLDAP is a object-oriented API to LDAP This looks fine to me. So I tried to install it, but it still doesn’t work. Here’s the output: C:\>gem install ruby-activeldap -r C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” install ruby-activeldap - r Attempting remote installation of ‘ruby-activeldap’ Install required dependency log4r? [Yn] Y ERROR: While executing gem … (OpenURI::HTTPError) 404 Not Found The output is always failing on the log4r installation, so I tried to only install this gem package. Again, it failed. Here’s the output: C:\>gem query -n log4r -r C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” query -n log4r -r \*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\* log4r (1.0.5) Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library for Ruby. C:\>gem install log4r -r C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” install log4r -r Attempting remote installation of ‘log4r’ ERROR: While executing gem … (OpenURI::HTTPError) 404 Not Found So for my own sanity, I decided to install a gem package for something that I figure would have relatively few dependencies. I tried rubytree. Here’s what I saw: C:\>gem query -n rubytree -r C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” query -n rubytree -r \*\*\* REMOTE GEMS \*\*\* rubytree (0.2.3, 0.2.2) Ruby implementation of the Tree data structure. C:\>gem install rubytree -r C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” install rubytree -r Attempting remote installation of ‘rubytree’ Successfully installed rubytree-0.2.3 Installing RDoc documentation for rubytree-0.2.3… C:\> This one works with no fuss. So I’m still in the same place as before. Any thoughts on how I can get this to work? ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-issue/88505/3 "2007-03-13T00:30:38Z")
On Mar 12, 12:50 am, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > ``` > 404 Not Found > > ``` > > someone can tell me with some certainty this is the issue. Here are > the versions I’m currently running: > > C:\>ruby -v > ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] > > C:\>gem -v > C:\>“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” -v > 0.8.10 > > All suggestions are welcome. Thanks for your time. Have you tried “gem query -n ruby-activeldap -r” to verify that it exist if it does you can “gem install ruby\_activeldap” the -r is not necessary unless you have a local copy of the gemspec The correct syntax if “gem install ruby\_activeldap -r” C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\>ruby -v ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-mswin32] C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\>gem -v 0.9.2 ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-issue/88505/4 "2007-03-19T17:51:27Z")
On Mar 18, 3:34 pm, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > Thanks for the response. > 0.5.9, 0.5.8, 0.5.7, 0.5.5, 0.5.4, 0.5.3, 0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5.0, 0.4.4, > > Attempting remote installation of ‘log4r’ > rubytree (0.2.3, 0.2.2) > > This one works with no fuss. So I’m still in the same place as before. > Any thoughts on how I can get this to work? which version of ruby and gem? C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\>ruby -v ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32] C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\>gem -v 0.9.2 goto to: [Log4r - Logging system written in Ruby download | SourceForge.net](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43396) and download the log4r-1.0.5 gem file. In the folder where you saved the gem, invoke gem install log4r -l note you do NOT need to specify -r if the gem that you want to install is not located in the current directory … gem searches the current working directory for the specified gem, if not found then it automatically does a remote search for the gem. the -r option is used when you do not want to install the local copy ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 6:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-issue/88505/5 "2007-04-02T06:31:06Z")
> the -r option is used when you do not want to install the local copy > Hey bbiker: Thanks for the reply. I was away for a bit so I’m just getting back to this now. I tried installing log4r locally. It took me a bit to get the log4r-1.0.5.gem file. I couldn’t download it from any of the North American sites, but it did come back from Ishikawa site. It installed without issue. Once this was installed, I invoked a ‘gem install ruby- activeldap’, and it installed successfully. Thanks for the help!