> Is Hpricot installed? Yes it is. Another attempt, on another machine : [Guillaume@KILLY971 ~]$ gem install mechanize Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency hpricot? [Yn] Y Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-cygwin) 1. hpricot 0.6 (mswin32) 2. hpricot 0.6 (jruby) 3. hpricot 0.6 (ruby) 4. hpricot 0.5 (ruby) 5. hpricot 0.5 (mswin32) 6. Skip this gem 7. Cancel installation > 1 Install required dependency hoe? [Yn] Y Install required dependency rubyforge? [Yn] Y Successfully installed mechanize-0.6.10 Successfully installed hpricot-0.6-mswin32 Successfully installed hoe-1.3.0 Successfully installed rubyforge-0.4.4 Installing ri documentation for mechanize-0.6.10... Installing ri documentation for hpricot-0.6-mswin32... Installing ri documentation for hoe-1.3.0... Installing ri documentation for rubyforge-0.4.4... Installing RDoc documentation for mechanize-0.6.10... Installing RDoc documentation for hpricot-0.6-mswin32... Installing RDoc documentation for hoe-1.3.0... Installing RDoc documentation for rubyforge-0.4.4... [Guillaume@KILLY971 ~]$ irb irb(main):001:0> require "rubygems" => true irb(main):002:0> require "mechanize" LoadError: Permission denied - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6- mswin32/lib/i686-linux/hpricot_scan.so from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6-mswin32/lib/i686- linux/hpricot_scan.so from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 32:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6-mswin32/lib/ hpricot.rb:20 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 32:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 32:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.10/lib/ mechanize/page.rb:2 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 32:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 32:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.10/lib/ mechanize.rb:40 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 32:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 32:in `require' from (irb):2 irb(main):003:0>