“You don't have write permissions for the /usr/bin directory.” when installing Sass using the Gem command

49
votes

I'm on Mac and I'm trying to install Sass using the command in terminal, "sudo gem install sass". I then enter my password, and everything works fine until this pops up,

"ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /usr/bin directory."

I do use sudo, but it still doesn't work, and it's one of those things that you can't give yourself read & write permissions to. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Wade

4
macosterminalsassrubygems

4 Answers

107
votes

/usr/bin is protected by system integrity protection and is not writeable by anybody even root. You need to run:

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

to install into a writeable directory

12
votes

For generamba:

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin generamba
2
votes

I used the same for bundler.

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin bundler.

It works.

1
votes

For CocoaPods:

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