This seems to be a fairly common problem, evidenced by Googling. I have installed Jekyll quite a few times on Windows but this was on a clean install of Ubuntu 16.10… jack@jakobuntu:~$ gem install jekyll Fetching: public_suffix-2.0.5.gem (100%) ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionEr…

You don't have write permissions for the /var/lib/gems/2.3.0 directory

RobWardNZ February 26, 2017, 10:06am 3

Thanks but not so sure what it means. I did a fresh Ubuntu install this evening and exactly the same issue again. Can an expert pls help fix this bug?

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You don't have write permissions for the /var/lib/gems/2.3.0 directory

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