# Updating ruby gems--\>error

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-ruby-gems-error/160139>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 12, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-ruby-gems-error/160139 "2009-02-12T06:50:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![7stud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/7/57b2e6/32.png) [@7stud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/7stud)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-ruby-gems-error/160139/1 "2009-02-12T06:50:08Z")

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Here is what I did:

$ sudo gem update --system  
Password:  
Updating RubyGems…  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
Attempting remote update of rubygems-update  
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.0.0  
Updating version of RubyGems to 1.3.1  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::ENOENT)  
No such file or directory -  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.1

What does that mean?

Thanks