Ubuntu's rvm ruby and openssl

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I am trying to install ruby with rvm on Ubuntu. I installed rvm with the synaptic package manager.

$ which rvm
/usr/bin/rvm
$ rvm --version

rvm 1.6.9 by Wayne E. Seguin (wayneeseguin@gmail.com) [https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/]

I try to install ruby:

$ rvm install 1.9.2
...
ERROR: Error running 'make ', please read /usr/share/ruby-rvm/log/ruby-1.9.2-p180/make.log
ERROR: There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.

The problem in the logfile is openssl related:

ossl_ssl.c:110:1: error: ‘SSLv2_method’ undeclared here (not in a function)

On https://rvm.io/packages/openssl/ it says to do $ rvm requirements but it gives an error:

$ rvm requirements
ERROR: Unrecognized command line argument: 'requirements' ( see: 'rvm usage' )

On the same page, it asks to do $ rvm reinstall 1.9.2 --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local, but this gives me the same errors during ruby's compilation. For the second approach on the same page, doing rvm pkg install openssl gives me

$ rvm pkg install openssl
ERROR: Unrecognized command line argument: 'pkg' ( see: 'rvm usage' )

Openssl is apparently installed:

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep openssl
openssl                     install
python-openssl              install

Don't don't don't install rvm with the package manager, use the installer scripts provided. See http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-ruby-rvm-rails-and-you/ for a good tutorial on doing this. — sevenseacat, Jan 19 '13 at 09:18

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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You're running an outdated version of RVM. You should go with the recommended install path explained on http://rvm.io and don't use a package installer. To fix check this instruction https://stackoverflow.com/a/9056395/497756.

Also don't use 1.9.2 use the current 1.9.3 ruby instead and for new projects use 2.0.0 which is in RC1 and should be released soon.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Jan 19 '13 at 10:17

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '13 at 10:19

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if you use ubuntu, just use ruby from this ppa..

http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/next-generation-ruby-packages-for-ubuntu

answered Jan 19 '13 at 10:19

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