# Problem installing rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rails/137357>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 12, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rails/137357 "2008-05-12T11:17:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![pReload](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ee7513/32.png) [@pReload](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pReload)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rails/137357/1 "2008-05-12T11:17:25Z")

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Hi,  
I’m installing rails on osx 10.3 (an old ibook) and I’ve this error:

$ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies  
Password:  
INFO: `gem install -y` is now default and will be removed  
INFO: use --ignore-dependencies to install only the gems you list  
Updating metadata for 37 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)  
…  
complete  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteSourceException)  
Error fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading  
[RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml)

Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.1.1 are correctly installed on system  
Any ideas?

Thanks,  
G.

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**Author:** ![pReload](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ee7513/32.png) [@pReload](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pReload)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rails/137357/2 "2008-05-13T05:11:06Z")

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On 5/12/08, pReload [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteSourceException)  
> Error fetching remote gem cache: Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe reading  
> [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml)

Try again. Sometimes the gem servers require a bit of persistence.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)