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CSS

Posted by bema konate
bema konate
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Mac wouldn't let me install sass

$ sudo gem uninstall sass Password: Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sass: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/ffi-1.11.1/ext/ffi_c

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20190526-62794-ezr25z.rb extconf.rb mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/ffi-1.11.1 for inspection.

Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/extensions/universal-darwin-18/2.3.0/ffi-1.11.1/gem_make.out

$ gem install sass ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0 directory. bemas-MacBook-Pro:FoodBlog bema$

What can I do to go around this and download sass to computer