Ruby RVM apt-get update error

Question

I get following error when trying to install anything with RVM:

Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rvm.io/binaries/ubuntu/13.04/x86_64/ruby-2.1.1.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for ubuntu.
Installing requirements for ubuntu.
Updating system..kshitiz password required for 'apt-get --quiet --yes update': 
............................
Error running 'requirements_debian_update_system ruby-2.1.1',
showing last 15 lines of /home/kshitiz/.rvm/log/1400047196_ruby-2.1.1/update_system.log
++ /scripts/functions/logging : rvm_pretty_print()  78 > case "${TERM:-dumb}" in
++ /scripts/functions/logging : rvm_pretty_print()  81 > case "$1" in
++ /scripts/functions/logging : rvm_pretty_print()  83 > [[ -t 2 ]]
++ /scripts/functions/logging : rvm_pretty_print()  83 > return 1
++ /scripts/functions/logging : rvm_error()  117 > printf %b 'There has been error while updating '\''apt-get'\'', please give it some time and try again later.
For 404 errors check your sources configured in:
    /etc/apt/sources.list
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
\n'
There has been error while updating 'apt-get', please give it some time and try again later.
For 404 errors check your sources configured in:
    /etc/apt/sources.list
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list

++ /scripts/functions/requirements/ubuntu : requirements_debian_update_system()  53 > return 100
Requirements installation failed with status: 100.

How can I fix this?

Kshitiz Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-15T03:15:57.433

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RVM doesn't behave well if apt-get update has errors. If your apt sources have an invalid repository that gives 404 or GPG error, RVM will refuse to work. This can be confusing because it happens even if the faulty repository has nothing to do with ruby or RVM.

The following fix worked for me (Ubuntu):

Run apt-get update and see if there are any errors. Edit your sources.list and precise.list in /etc/apt to remove the faulty repositories. Repeat until apt-get update succeeds without any errors. Then try running RVM.

edited May 15 '14 at 03:15

answered May 14 '14 at 09:42

Kshitiz Sharma

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Your answer makes sense. I'm applying this technique now. – 6ft Dan May 25 '14 at 01:01
I want to give a bounty :) Exactly as explained, some ppa were returning 404 and there were few warnings. Fixed them and it worked like a charm. – acpmasquerade Mar 01 '15 at 09:17
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In my case, `apt-get update` did throw errors but I couldn't find them in `/etc/apt/sources.list` (`/etc/apt/precise.list` doesn't even exists in my system). Poking around I've found some files for specific applications in `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/` and the errors were coming from there. I removed (backed up and moved) the files that were causing the problem and it worked. – mathielo Jul 25 '15 at 02:41
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So you can get this error also, if you have locked package manager – Dmitriy Korolev Nov 08 '15 at 14:21
Completely fixed this for me. I had some weird source on in my lists which 404'd – greg_data Jan 13 '16 at 20:57
Message from the future. I have this same problem but `sudo apt-get update` does not produce any errors, so there's nothing to fix there. – Matthew James Briggs Sep 22 '17 at 22:03
@MatthewJamesBriggs In that case the error message you are getting must differ in some way. Can you post the error on paste bin? – Kshitiz Sharma Sep 23 '17 at 04:13
@KshitizSharma I eventually resolved it by installation by the dedicated Ubuntu package of rvm with apt-get and it worked. – Matthew James Briggs Sep 23 '17 at 05:16

score 62 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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You can try to skip the rvm updating system so apt-get won't be called.

# Disable RVM from trying to install necessary software via apt-get
rvm autolibs disable

# Then try installing Ruby:
rvm install 2.4.0

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/16759839/1212791

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Feb 16 '17 at 23:02

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MajiK · Answer 3 · 2014-12-15T14:48:55.747

I also had to remove failing repositories but I had hard time spotting them and removing them based on instructions here. So I found this link which explains exactly why this happens and how to remove failing repositories:

In short, run following to find failing repositories:

sudo apt-get update | grep "Failed"

An example output can be like this:

:~# apt-get update  | grep "Failed"
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/upubuntu-com/web/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/upubuntu-com/web/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

And finally use this command to remove the failing repo(s):

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:{failing ppa}

for the example here it will look like this:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:upubuntu-com/web

I have no failing repo's `sudo apt-get update | grep "Failed"` returns nothing, but I have the same error as the OP. — Matthew James Briggs, Sep 22 '17 at 22:04

score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 16 '14 at 10:10

Alternative, it is also possible to cut the crap in rvm. I edited requirements_debian_update_system() in file /usr/share/rvm/scripts/functions/requirements/ubuntu like this:

  requirements_debian_update_system()
  {
  echo "*fake* apt-get update"
  #  __rvm_try_sudo apt-get --quiet --yes update ||
  #  {
  #    typeset __ret=$?
  #    case ${__ret} in
  #      (100)
  #        rvm_error "There has been error while updating 'apt-get', please give it some time and try again later.
  #404 errors should be fixed for rvm to proceed. Check your sources configured in:
  #    /etc/apt/sources.list
  #    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
  #"
  #        ;;
  #    esac
  #    return ${__ret}
  #  }
  }

The path provided was not the same for me. The correct path should be $rvm_path/scripts/functions/requirements/ubuntu. — Matteo A, Jun 12 '17 at 10:29
Thanks for this, `rvm` is clearly overstepping its boundaries here. One failure during an `apt-get update` is _not_ a valid reason to throw toys out of the pram and give up on an install. — Adam Williams, Oct 10 '19 at 15:16

score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 12 '16 at 23:05

This happened to me as well when I was trying to install a version of Ruby as a non-sudoer user. However, when I logged in as my admin user (with sudo privileges) and ran sudo apt-get update | grep "Failed" I would get no errors and, yet, rvm install x.x.x would still result in asking for a password (when I ran rvm install as the non-sudoer user.)

I was banging my head with this for a while because I didn't want my rvm (regular user) user to have sudo privileges. Then after some putzing around on Google I figured out that I could log in as my admin user.

Go through the steps of installing RVM for that user (as per their documentation):

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3

$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

$ source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Then (as the admin user) jump straight into installing the RVM required packages:

$ rvm requirements

at which point it asks for my sudo password and installs the required apt packages for the entire system after I enter my password.

Then I log off from server as admin user and log back in as rvm user (with no sudo privileges) and try to install a version of Ruby.

$ rvm install x.x.x

and now it works.

This was the simplest solution for me. – jpayne Sep 30 '19 at 16:31 — jpayne, Sep 30 '19 at 16:31
I just ended up adding user to sudoers. – Artem P Feb 25 '21 at 05:24 — Artem P, Feb 25 '21 at 05:24

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 12 '14 at 18:13

You don't need of apt-get to install rvm and to use it !

Just curl (apt-get install curl)

Launch \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

and rvm install 2.1.1 or another ruby's version and it works ;)

gem update etc...

RVM will be independent of apt-get so you'll have no longer issu.

For more informations : https://rvm.io/rvm/install

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 30 '15 at 00:32

I had the same issue. If none of the other answers work try this. I ran the following command to fix it:

sudo apt-get -f install

Then I remembered that I failed installing a package earlier that day. What this command did was resolve the dependencies on that package and allowed RVM to do its thing.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 12 '14 at 17:58

I just tried

sudo apt-get update and found some of them are failing; for example..

Err http://extras.ubuntu.com raring/main Sources 404 Not Found

I went ahead and deleted those items from the list here..

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

It worked!

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Sep 08 '14 at 04:04

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I was getting an error similar to this while running curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby. It took a while but I finally realised that I had synaptic open: the installer couldn't run because apt was locked

answered Sep 08 '14 at 04:04

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 10 '15 at 03:44

I was also getting this error when my working directory was inside a mounted dir.

The fix was just to:

cd ~

I figured this out by seeing this at the bottom of a sudo apt-get update

E: Unable to change to /path/to/my/current/directory/ - chdir (13: Permission denied)

Zia Qamar · Answer 11 · 2016-04-07T07:52:49.440

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I got the same error.I tried most of above answers but none works for me, so i just change server

Goto directory etc/apt
click on Sources.list
Change the server to us or some else server
Reload (it will update your cache from that server)
Then run sudo apt-get update

edited Apr 07 '16 at 07:52

answered Apr 07 '16 at 07:44

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered May 01 '17 at 05:22

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this problem caused in apt-get update so you have to disable the PPA :

System Settings>Software & Updates>Other Software

then reinstall.

answered May 01 '17 at 05:22

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 08 '17 at 17:51

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In my case rvm missed some linux packages, which couldnt be installed without sudo. There were no apt-get install errors at all.

When running rvm install ruby x.x.x with sudo, rvm installed packages required to build ruby and it worked.

answered Oct 08 '17 at 17:51

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Feb 23 '19 at 09:11

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Issue - requirements_debian_update_system ruby-2.2.2 error

I also had the same issue. I found info on this link Click Here

I followed this and resolved my issue. Was able to install ruby as

rvm install 2.2

answered Feb 23 '19 at 09:11

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered May 05 '20 at 19:57

1) Before installing ruby must be done update:

apt is preferred over apt-get for interactive use in recent Ubuntu versions and apt should fix by:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Or with apt-get may be used --allow-releaseinfo-change

sudo apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update

2) After successfully installation, for example ruby-2.3.1:

rvm install 2.3.1

score -1 · Answer 16 · edited Feb 18 '17 at 19:48

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apt install libc6:amd64 libc6:amd64 libc6 libc6-dev:amd64 libc6-dev libc-dev-bin libc-bin man-db libc-dev-bin libc6-dev:amd64

thats work fine for me ^^

edited Feb 18 '17 at 19:48

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answered Feb 18 '17 at 16:34

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Sanjit · Answer 17 · 2021-01-28T19:05:12.343

The problem is with your sources configured in:

/etc/apt/sources.list
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list

So to check the errors you have to run this command and need to find that which PPA is firing errors:

sudo apt-get update | grep "Failed"

Then to resolve this error you have to press the Windows key and need to search "Software & Updates".

Then open it and go into Other Software there you can see some URLs which is failed while update.

Then uncheck those URLs from this and close this window and then do

sudo apt-get update

Finally, you can install ruby with

rvm install 2.4

PS: You can change the version you want to install ruby.

Ruby RVM apt-get update error

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