Overwrite executable warning when trying to install gem

[lacostenycoder]

11 # Describe the problem

Overwrite executable warning

Steps to reproduce the problem

gem install tty-reader
# or 
gem install tty-prompt

Actual behaviour

I get this warning in the terminal

wisper's executable "console" conflicts with countries
Overwrite the executable? [yN]

# for gem install tty-prompt
Fetching: necromancer-0.5.1.gem (100%)
Successfully installed necromancer-0.5.1
Fetching: equatable-0.6.1.gem (100%)
Successfully installed equatable-0.6.1
Fetching: tty-color-0.5.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed tty-color-0.5.0
Fetching: pastel-0.7.3.gem (100%)
Successfully installed pastel-0.7.3
wisper's executable "console" conflicts with countries
Overwrite the executable? [yN]  ERROR:  Error installing tty-prompt:
    "console" from wisper conflicts with installed executable from countries

I tried to find out what whisper even is and only found https://rubygems.org/gems/whisper with no link to any viewable source code or documentation. So what does this even do?

Expected behaviour

Provide information of why I'm overwriting an executable, and what the dependency is even doing.

Describe your environment

• OS version: MacOS Mojave 10.14.3 (18D109
• Ruby version: ruby 2.4.1p111
• TTY version: none, afraid to install until this is resolved.

[piotrmurach]

Hi Lance,

Thanks for using tty gem!

This issue is not related to tty and it also isn't related to wisper dependency(btw. the name is wipser and not whisper - https://rubygems.org/gems/wisper). The wisper installation made the error manifests itself but wasn't the reason.

As I searched, I found that the issue is with countries gem, which makes files in bin executable. The countries gem should probably conflict with other gems much earlier. Here is the issue as reported in the countries gem repository. So you need to upgrade your countries gem version and that should remove your problem.