# Problem with setting up rubygem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-setting-up-rubygem/62544>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 6, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-setting-up-rubygem/62544 "2006-06-06T01:23:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![victorfan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e8c25b/32.png) [@victorfan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/victorfan)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-setting-up-rubygem/62544/1 "2006-06-06T01:23:02Z")

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Hi everyone!

I am trying to set up Rubygems on my Linux machine; however, I’ve got  
the following error:

[root@denman rubygems-0.8.11]# sudo ruby setup.rb  
—\> bin  
\<— bin  
—\> lib  
—\> lib/rubygems  
\<— lib/rubygems  
\<— lib  
setup.rb:242:in `initialize': Permission denied - .config (Errno::EACCES) from setup.rb:242:in`save’  
from setup.rb:879:in `exec_config' from setup.rb:703:in`invoke’  
from setup.rb:674:in `invoke’  
from setup.rb:1352

what should I do?

Thank you!

Victor

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**Author:** ![victorfan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e8c25b/32.png) [@victorfan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/victorfan)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-setting-up-rubygem/62544/2 "2006-06-06T22:41:26Z")

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Never mind, I’ve discovered that I made some stupid mistakes while I set  
up ruby.

Thank you!