# Problems with gem system update

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-gem-system-update/145467>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 10, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-gem-system-update/145467 "2008-08-10T07:38:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![inari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@inari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/inari)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-gem-system-update/145467/1 "2008-08-10T07:38:58Z")

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Im fairly new to ruby and have been playing around with rails, merb and  
other gems. today i ran sudo gem update --system and im getting the  
following error.  
Any idea what can be causing this?

Updating RubyGems  
WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for:  
[http://merbivore.com](http://merbivore.com)

RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.  
Updating metadata for 120 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)  
…  
complete  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
bad response Not Found 404 ([http://merbivore.com/Marshal.4.8](http://merbivore.com/Marshal.4.8))

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![inari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@inari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/inari)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-gem-system-update/145467/2 "2008-08-10T13:04:47Z")

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maybe because there is no merbivore gems repo any more?  
try:

gem sources

# then remove the other sources.

gem sources -r [http://merbivore.com](http://merbivore.com)

if that doenst work then you can manually remove them

vi ~/.gemrc

…

* * *

:update\_sources: true  
:sources:

- [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
:verbose: true

hth

/dc