Question

hiii
i am trying to update my gem file. Current version of gem is 1.8.5
When i am trying to update it using command ” gem install rubygems-update -v 1.8.5 ” it is giving following error
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ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
(http://rubygems.org/gems/rubygems-update-1.8.5.gem)

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I am working on ubuntu 10.04

also i tried to update using command ” gem update –system ”
it is giving the error as below
Updating rubygems-update
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ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find a valid gem ‘rubygems-update’ (1.8.6) locally or in
a repository

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i also tried the solution given on the link http://lightyearsoftware.com/2009/07/updating-rubygems-to-recent-1-3-x/

please help me to resolve the problem..

Answer 1

If you are under Windows 7, run the command prompt as Administrator.

Read this thread. The error reported is the same of yours.

Try to apply the Google DNS configuration to your connection.

Otherwise you can try to install locally the gem, downloading it on rubygems.org. After this, in the directory you downloaded the gem, try to install it locally with the command: gem install gem_name --local