Unable to create sub theme of Aurora

Installing on Linux Ubuntu 9.10.
Rubygems, SASS and COMPASS installed OK.
sudo gem install compass-aurora does not install subtheme; terminal response as follows:

fireadmin@vivaldi:/shares/drupal-7-encompassworld/sites/all/themes$ sudo gem install compass-aurora -V
GET 301 Moved Permanently: http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
GET 302 Moved Temporarily: https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
GET 200 OK: https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
GET 301 Moved Permanently: http://gems.rubyforge.org/specs.4.8.gz
GET 302 Moved Temporarily: https://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
connection reset after 2 requests, retrying
GET 200 OK: https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz
connection reset after 3 requests, retrying
GET 301 Moved Permanently: http://gems.rubyforge.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/compass-0.12.0.gemspec.rz
connection reset after 3 requests, retrying
GET 302 Moved Temporarily: https://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/compass-0.12.0.gemspec.rz
Error fetching remote data:             Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe (http://gems.rubyforge.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/compass-0.12.0.gemspec.rz)
Falling back to local-only install
Installing gem breakpoint-2.0.6
Downloading gem breakpoint-2.0.6.gem
GET 301 Moved Permanently: http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/breakpoint-2.0.6.gem
GET 302 Moved Temporarily: https://rubygems.org/gems/breakpoint-2.0.6.gem
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)
    SSL_write:: bad write retry