# Newbie problem installing Radiant with Ruby Gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-problem-installing-radiant-with-ruby-gems/85147>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [February 10, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-problem-installing-radiant-with-ruby-gems/85147 "2007-02-10T16:19:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![phil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@phil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phil)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-problem-installing-radiant-with-ruby-gems/85147/1 "2007-02-10T16:19:27Z")

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Hi,

I’m interested in trying out Radiant, but have a problem when  
installing it with Ruby Gems -

philip$ gem install --include-dependencies radiant  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EACCES)  
Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/  
activesupport-1.3.1.gem

Looking in this directory, the file doesn’t exist. Instead I seem to  
have a newer version -  
activesupport-1.4.1.gem

How do I get around this? Install from the Tar instead?

Cheers,

Phil

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**Author:** ![phil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@phil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phil)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-problem-installing-radiant-with-ruby-gems/85147/2 "2007-02-10T17:26:31Z")

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Phil,

If you’re installing on a shared host, you probably won’t be able to  
install a gem. Ask your provider to install it for you or seek out  
information on how to install gems in your home directory. If it’s your  
own personal machine, put ‘sudo’ in front of that command.

Sean

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**Author:** ![phil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@phil](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phil)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-problem-installing-radiant-with-ruby-gems/85147/3 "2007-02-10T21:26:50Z")

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Ah, sudo did the trick. Seems obvious really. Thanks!

Phil