# Problem with gem 1.3.2 upgrade

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-1-3-2-upgrade/182069>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 22, 2010, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-1-3-2-upgrade/182069 "2010-01-22T08:41:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trout)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-1-3-2-upgrade/182069/1 "2010-01-22T08:41:34Z")

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trying to update from gem 1.3.1 to 1.3.2. downloaded 1.3.2 to harddrive.  
then entered “gem install 1.2.3” at the command line. I get the  
following error

ERROR: could not find gem 1.3.2 locally or in a repository

where do I need to put the gem 1.3.2 file so that it can be found?

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**Author:** ![trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trout)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-1-3-2-upgrade/182069/2 "2010-01-22T08:47:13Z")

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Nick Oconnor wrote:

> trying to update from gem 1.3.1 to 1.3.2. downloaded 1.3.2 to harddrive.  
> then entered “gem install 1.3.2” at the command line. I get the  
> following error
> 
> ERROR: could not find gem 1.3.2 locally or in a repository
> 
> where do I need to put the gem 1.3.2 file so that it can be found?

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**Author:** ![trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trout)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-1-3-2-upgrade/182069/3 "2010-01-22T09:01:05Z")

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Try gem update --system

This will update to the latest version of ruby gems.

-Jonathan N.

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**Author:** ![trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trout)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-1-3-2-upgrade/182069/4 "2010-01-22T13:42:37Z")

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:05:51PM +0900, Nick Oconnor wrote:

> Updating rubygems-update  
> ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::FilePermissionError)  
> You don’t have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8  
> directory.

sudo gem update --system

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**Author:** ![trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@trout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trout)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-1-3-2-upgrade/182069/5 "2010-01-22T09:05:49Z")

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Jonathan N. wrote:

> Try gem update --system
> 
> This will update to the latest version of ruby gems.
> 
> -Jonathan N.

thanks for the quick reply. Here is what I got…

Updating RubyGems  
Updating rubygems-update  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::FilePermissionError)  
You don’t have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8  
directory.

Any ideas?