# Rubygems win32 error with ruby 1.8.4 (final)

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 27, 2005, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-win32-error-with-ruby-1-8-4-final/51156 "2005-12-27T11:13:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-win32-error-with-ruby-1-8-4-final/51156/1 "2005-12-27T11:13:46Z")

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hi all. i’m using the ruby 1.8.4 binary from garbagecollect with dll’s  
mentioned in the ‘how to install’ section. all seems fine except  
rubygems reports this error when i try to install anything -

"Could not find RubyGem sources (0.0.0) (Gem::LoadError).

according to the gems website this was a problem with an earlier  
version, but i’m using 0.8.11

thanks for any ideas

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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-win32-error-with-ruby-1-8-4-final/51156/2 "2005-12-28T11:30:39Z")

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or does someone have a link to the preview3 of ruby 1.8.4? i’m pretty  
sure that worked ok.

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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-win32-error-with-ruby-1-8-4-final/51156/3 "2005-12-28T19:10:25Z")

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well, it was a blasted dll issue. i love windows! long live microsuck

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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-win32-error-with-ruby-1-8-4-final/51156/4 "2005-12-28T12:42:56Z")

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you may just need to set a few environmental variables to  
indicate to ruby and gem where to look for your files.  
the following is an example for somebody using a bash shell.  
your paths and shell may differ – adjust accordingly.

export RUBYLIB=/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8:/lib/ruby/1.8  
export GEM\_PATH=/lib/ruby/gems/1.8  
export GEM\_HOME=/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

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**Author:** ![simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@simonh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simonh)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-win32-error-with-ruby-1-8-4-final/51156/5 "2005-12-29T04:56:15Z")

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On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 19:27 +0900, simonh wrote:

> or does someone have a link to the preview3 of ruby 1.8.4? i’m pretty  
> sure that worked ok.

FWIW, lots of past Ruby versions are mirrored here:

[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=426](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=426)

Yours,

Tom