# Jekyll does not apply custom CSS with minima theme? Also local installation no longer exist for jekyll/ruby?

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**Created:** [June 25, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-does-not-apply-custom-css-with-minima-theme-also-local-installation-no-longer-exist-for-jekyll-ruby/9285 "2024-06-25T11:37:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-does-not-apply-custom-css-with-minima-theme-also-local-installation-no-longer-exist-for-jekyll-ruby/9285/1 "2024-06-25T11:37:49Z")

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Hi!

I’m trying to run a simple jekyll blog site to keep track of my progress through a personal project, i got it working no issue so far, yet when i tried to use CSS content for testing different small modifications (as for now, just changing the header color), it just does not apply a single thing, Github Actions did report an issue for non existent files (under \_sass/, since i did not import it), after fixing it\*, no CSS is appearing to be applied.

my /assets/css/style.scss file

```auto
---
---

@import
  "minima/skins/{{ site.minima.skin | default: 'classic' }}",
  "minima/initialize";

header {
    background-image: linear-gradient(black, grey) !important;
}

```

Am i doing something wrong here? How can i get to apply my custom CSS?

For reference, this is the content of my current jekyll site:

> 404.html  
> about.markdown  
> assets/css/style.scss  
> \_config.yml  
> Gemfile  
> Gemfile.lock  
> index.markdown  
> \_posts  
> README.md  
> \_sass  
> \_site

On the other hand, when i try to test jekyll serve locally, even though i am 100% sure i installed it and tested the site, my jekyll serve command returns a command not found, and i somewhat recall to have installed some ruby packages thingy through bundler or gem, could that be possible? if so, can i return to a functional state for my jekyll local installation?

## Thanks in advance!

- by “fixing it” i mean i downloaded minima’s repo and moved the \_sass directory within my own site, nothing else.