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Posted by Jeesun Kim
Jeesun Kim
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Help with Terminal. It won't install Sass

I am using a Mac 10.6.8 and I have a hard time with Terminal. For instance, I have been trying to install Sass by using: gem install sass. At first it seemed like it was installing but when I double checked by typing "sass -v," it didn't return "Sass 3.2.12 (Media Mark)".

I will appreciate any help. Thank you!

6 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

What happens when you enter 

ruby -v
gem -v

commands in your terminal?

Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points
Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points

I'm betting since you're on 10.6 you're using a third party Ruby version. Probably what's happening is your path is not set correctly and the system ruby is being used instead.

Marcus Tisäter
Marcus Tisäter
4,886 Points
Marcus Tisäter
Marcus Tisäter
4,886 Points

Try install it with 

sudo gem install sass
Eric Tirado
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Eric Tirado
iOS Development Techdegree Student 7,036 Points
Eric Tirado
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Eric Tirado
iOS Development Techdegree Student 7,036 Points

I have same issue. None of these answers solve the problem for me.

Eric Tirado
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Eric Tirado
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Eric Tirado
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Eric Tirado
iOS Development Techdegree Student 7,036 Points

Ok. This helped me install sass. Not sure why it's not installing for the user by default.

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin GEM_NAME_HERE
Sam Donald
Sam Donald
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Sam Donald
Sam Donald
36,305 Points

I can get it either.

Here's my msg:

ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'sass' (>= 0), here is why:
          Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - bad response Not Found 404 (https://rubygems.global.ssl.fastly.net/latest_specs.4.8.gz)