[DRE-maint] [Bug 631299] Re: doesn't allow for homedir installation of gems in maverick version

[Jason Rohwedder]

likely a dup of 539692

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doesn't allow for homedir installation of gems in maverick version
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631299
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Status in “libgems-ruby” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Running on a lucid machine, upgraded just the rubygems packages to maverick to gain some of the rubygems.org related functionality.  I now get an error when I try to install without sudo:

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
    You don't have write permissions into the /var/lib/gems/1.8 directory.

In the lucid version of the package, it would just install to my $HOME/.gems if I didn't run gem as root or via sudo.  

Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release:        10.04
ii  rubygems                              1.3.6-2                                         package management framework for Ruby libraries/
ii  rubygems1.8                           1.3.6-2                                         package management framework for Ruby libraries/