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CSS Compass Basics Getting Started with Compass Installing Compass

Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson
7,885 Points
Posted by Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson
7,885 Points

gem 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$

tobiaskrause
tobiaskrause
9,160 Points

What is your OS?

2 Answers

Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson
7,885 Points
Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson
7,885 Points

OSX Version 10.11.3 (15D21). I also tried to use the sudo command and get permission errors as well.

Marco Boretto
Marco Boretto
29,821 Points
Marco Boretto
Marco Boretto
29,821 Points

try this out:

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin compass