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Ken Wilson
7,885 Pointsgem update --system will not run
I checked permissions and I'm the admin with read and write privileges and get the following error:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied - /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/cache/rubygems-update-2.6.2.gem LDFWSGZFH00:~ Ken$
2 Answers

Ken Wilson
7,885 PointsOSX Version 10.11.3 (15D21). I also tried to use the sudo command and get permission errors as well.

Marco Boretto
29,821 Pointstry this out:
sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin compass
tobiaskrause
9,159 Pointstobiaskrause
9,159 PointsWhat is your OS?