# Rubygems only runs as root **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 22, 2006, 8:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-only-runs-as-root/73161 "2006-10-22T08:15:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 8:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-only-runs-as-root/73161/1 "2006-10-22T08:15:55Z")
Loaded the lastest rubygems (0.9.0) as root, like always, but in my USER account I can’t see it anymore. I have no problem doing this on my laptop. The only difference is I’m using ruby 1.8.5 in my USER account, while the root has 1.8.4. I’m using PCLinuxOS 0.9.2 on my desktop and 0.9.3a on the laptop. In both cases gem was placed in /usr/bin/gem and the PATH is set to see this dir in both case. But when I run the gem command from my desktop I get the following message: $ /usr/bin/gem /usr/bin/gem:10: unitialized constant Gem (NameError) or $ gem bash: /usr/local/bin/gem: No such file or directory ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-only-runs-as-root/73161/2 "2006-10-22T14:02:36Z")
On 10/22/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Loaded the lastest rubygems (0.9.0) as root, like always, > but in my USER account I can’t see it anymore. I have no > problem doing this on my laptop. The only difference is I’m > using ruby 1.8.5 in my USER account, while the root has 1.8.4. The ‘gem’ command is just a front-end to code in the RubyGems library, so you probably need to install RubyGems under your user account copy of Ruby (the 1.8.5 installation) as well.