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I use Jekyll on my Ubuntu laptop. It worked with 15.10. I've upgraded to 16.04 and I got this error message :

$ jekyll -v
bash: /usr/local/bin/jekyll : /usr/bin/ruby2.1 : bad interpreter: no file or folder

Here is the installed version of Ruby :

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.3.0p0 (2015-12-25) [i386-linux-gnu]

I've tried:

$ gem update jekyll
Updating installed gems
Nothing to update

As which ruby returns /usr/bin/ruby, I've updated /usr/local/bin/jekyll changing #!/usr/bin/ruby2.1 to #!/usr/bin/ruby.

Now I get :

$ jekyll -v
/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:319:in 'to_specs': Could not find 'jekyll' (>= 0) among 11 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)
Checked in 'GEM_PATH=/home/samuel/.gem/ruby/2.3.0:/var/lib/gems/2.3.0:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/2.3.0:/usr/share/rubygems-integration/2.3.0:/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all', execute 'gem env` for more information
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:328:in 'to_spec'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:65:in 'gem'
    from /usr/local/bin/jekyll:22:in 'main'

Here is what gem env returns :

$ gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.5.1
  - RUBY VERSION: 2.3.0 (2015-12-25 patchlevel 0) [i386-linux-gnu]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/2.3.0
  - USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/samuel/.gem/ruby/2.3.0
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby2.3
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin
  - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /home/samuel/.gem/specs
  - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /etc
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /var/lib/gems/2.3.0
     - /home/samuel/.gem/ruby/2.3.0
     - /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/2.3.0
     - /usr/share/rubygems-integration/2.3.0
     - /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/
  - SHELL PATH:
     - /usr/local/sbin
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /usr/sbin
     - /usr/bin
     - /sbin
     - /bin
     - /usr/games
     - /usr/local/games
     - /snap/bin
muru
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Samuel
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2 Answers2

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I had the same issue. It's caused by ruby update in new Ubuntu. Just uninstall jekyll and install it again:

gem uninstall jekyll
gem install jekyll
Piotr
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5

In addition to the answer by @Piotr, I also had to uninstall and reinstall the gem bundler. That is, I ran,

gem uninstall bundler
gem install bundler
bundle

Only after this did bundle exec jekyll serve start to work again after my upgrade from ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04.

ijuneja
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