While jekyll installation isn’t really complicated as it seems, people do encounter errors, most common of them being permission denied. One way to circumvent it is to run sudo command for installation, but that’s not the safest option. You need to install it using root user which can be done via rvm installation. Following is the step by step guide to installation.

Usually it’s the first part of installation, (i.e) installing Ruby and RubyGems via RVM which seems complicated, so we will look into that only, however I will provide link for later steps in installation as well. Those should be pretty easy.

  • Assuming you are on ubuntu or any linux distribution, firstly you need to install Ruby, so verify the RSA fingerprint
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB

  • Install it completely using \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby.

  • Once done with that, load the rvm into your shells source
    • ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
    • rvm | head -n 1

  • If installation is successful you should see the following output rvm is a function.

  • Now we need to install RubyGems, probably it should be pre-loaded into ubuntu, nevertheless you can follow it here, it’s fairly simple.

  • Finally, follow the quickstart guide to carry forward your first blog post here. That should be self explanatory.