gem under cygwin - is it supposed to work?

[Ronald Fischer]

I am using two installation of Ruby 1.8.5 - one running natively under
Windows, and one
bundled with Cygwin.

The Cygwin installation does not come with gem, so after I had installed
gem 0.9.3 under
Windows, I installed it within my Cygwin environment.

Contrary to the installation under Windows, which issued an error
message, but left me
with a supposedly working "gem" (I have described this problem in a
separate thread),
the Cygwin installation of gem worked without errors, but the usage of
the package
does not seem to work:


$ gem install net-ssh
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find net-ssh (> 0) in any repository


So I wonder whether gem is intended to work at all under Cygwin. Anyone
already tried this?

BTW, here is my Cygwin gem environment:

$ gem environment
RubyGems Environment:
- VERSION: 0.9.3 (0.9.3)
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- GEM PATH:
- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://gems.rubyforge.org


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[Ronald Fischer]

Try gem install -r net-ssh to install from a remote repository.

Thank you - this worked indeed!

Of course I now wonder why the installation under pure Windows was able
to
locate the net-ssh package without having me specified the "-r"
option....
(I actually never had used -r before in my gem installations).

Ronald