# RubyGems Malfunction

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-malfunction/77139>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 6, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-malfunction/77139 "2006-03-06T04:56:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![superN00b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@superN00b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/superN00b)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-malfunction/77139/1 "2006-03-06T04:56:02Z")

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Thanks to everybody who helped me with my 1.6â??1.8 issue.

Shamefully, however, I have a new question for you.  
I downloaded the RubyGems folder and tried to run ./configure on it;  
couldn’t do it so I assume it’s not installable that way. So I tried  
cd’ing into the folder and typing “sudo gem update” to get Rails, but  
all I get is this error:

/usr/bin/gem:3:in `require’: no such file to load – rubygems  
(LoadError)  
from /usr/bin/gem:3

Anybody know what I’m doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![superN00b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@superN00b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/superN00b)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-malfunction/77139/2 "2006-03-06T05:01:33Z")

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On Mar 5, 2006, at 10:56 PM, superN00b wrote:

> ```
> from /usr/bin/gem:3
> 
> ```
> 
> Anybody know what I’m doing wrong?
> 
> –  
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).

Have you tried reading README or possibly INSTALL?  
(However I’m pretty sure its just:  
sudo ruby setup.rb install  
)

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**Author:** ![superN00b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@superN00b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/superN00b)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-malfunction/77139/3 "2006-03-06T05:12:37Z")

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Logan C. wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2006, at 10:56 PM, superN00b wrote:
> 
> > ```
> > from /usr/bin/gem:3
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > Anybody know what I’m doing wrong?
> > 
> > –  
> > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
> 
> Have you tried reading README or possibly INSTALL?  
> (However I’m pretty sure its just:  
> sudo ruby setup.rb install  
> )

Thanks! That did the trick.