[chef] Re: chef install from gem to Ubuntu not in path

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Edward Sargisson 
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 wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on my desktop and sudo gem install chef ran
> successfully but knife and chef-client didn't appear in the default
> path.
>
> I'm not familiar enough with how ruby and gem put things into the path
> (symlinks in /usr/bin?) so could somebody please point me a suitable
> document to figure this out?

The gem binaries are installed into different places depending on
distribution. As was mentioned, current versions of Debian and Ubuntu
use /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin, which you will need to add to your PATH
variable. Depending on your shell, you can do this system-wide by
adding "PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin" to /etc/profile. Future
versions of the Debian and Ubuntu rubygems package will install
binaries in /usr/local/bin. [1]

Bryan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403407