RVM installation fails

Question

I followed the instructions from the RVM homepage (https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/)

I typed the following:

sudo bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer )

the script executed and didn't seem to give any errors.

the same without sudo gave an error:

Warning: Failed to create the file 
Warning: /usr/share/ruby-rvm/archives/wayneeseguin-rvm-stable.tgz: Permission 
Warning: denied
  0  792k    0  3908    0     0   2257      0  0:05:59  0:00:01  0:05:58  2257
curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 3908)

Could not download 'https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/tarball/stable'.
  curl returned status '23'.

I also put this in my ~/.bashrc

echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

what I get is:

~$ type rvm | head -1
bash: type: rvm: not found

~$ source "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm"
bash: /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm: No such file or directory

~$ source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
bash: /home/anonym/.rvm/scripts/rvm: No such file or directory

How can this be fixed?

PS

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10

Did you try reloading your session after changing your .bashrc? To do that, use `source ~/.bashrc` or open new terminal window. — Sergio Tulentsev, Dec 23 '11 at 03:53
Are you trying to install RVM for your own personal development, or as a system administrator for all users on a shared host? Unless you are a system admin doing it for everyone, you should use the single user installation, per RVM's install page. — the Tin Man, Dec 24 '11 at 19:28

score 33 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 16 '15 at 12:11

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Sudo problems. This worked for me to install rvm. Just do:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | sudo bash -s stable --ruby

answered Mar 16 '15 at 12:11

hec

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useful for Ubuntu 14.04 – potapuff Sep 29 '16 at 07:24
@hec Life saver answer :) – Vishal Aug 28 '17 at 12:41

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 07 '14 at 01:57

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nano ~/.bashrc

at the bottom of the file add these line

unset rvm_path
unset GEM_HOME

Then run

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
echo "source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.bashrc
rvm install 2.1.3
rvm use 2.1.3 --default
ruby -v

answered Nov 07 '14 at 01:57

Igor Yuzovitskiy

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I had to `source ~/.bashrc` before curl would work for me, but it did! – Loren Feb 06 '16 at 20:57

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '11 at 18:01

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Can you try this:

$ curl -s raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer | bash -s stable

or

$ curl -s raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer | sudo bash -s stable

depending on your permissions. That should help. It helped me! :)

answered Dec 24 '11 at 18:01

Karthick S

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In works if you either use it with sudo or if you create a directory with permissions to write first. – Andrzej Gis Dec 26 '11 at 23:37
Make sure you've added your user to the rvm group. Also, make sure you log out and log in. Group memberships are processed at login, so in order to write to /usr/local/rvm, you must log out and then log in so that the OS recognizes that you're in the rvm group. – GregB Jan 12 '14 at 20:08

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 06 '12 at 16:25

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I'm sure there's a more elegant way to fix this, but I ran into the same issue and was kinda in a hurry, so I went for a quick and dirty workaround:

$ curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer > foo.sh
$ chmod 755 foo.sh

Then edit line 162, and add -k to the curl command:

$ vim foo.sh
162 if curl -Lk https://github.com/${_repo}/rvm/tarball/${_branch} -o ${rvm_archives_path}/${_repo}-rvm-${_branch}.tgz

Then run the script:

$ ./foo.sh --branch stable

Like I said, not ideal, but it got me where I needed to be quickly.

answered Jan 06 '12 at 16:25

garrettux

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kept digging a little, found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6414232/curl-certificate-error-when-using-rvm-to-install-ruby-1-9-2. In particular, the answer from @dbikard with instructions for updating the cacert bundle for curl. – garrettux Jan 09 '12 at 16:18
None of the other solutions worked for me on AWS Centos 5 images. – chaostheory Jan 15 '12 at 10:37
this solution "works" for me partially since I had to go inside my foo.sh file and replace https://github.com/ by https://nodeload.github.com/ – Leo May 24 '12 at 00:40

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 02 '12 at 16:13

If anyone has this problem in the future in ubuntu I was getting this error because of an old package that still had config stuff hanging around.

Try running

sudo apt-get --purge remove ruby-rvm

That should take care of the permission error and let you install RVM as a normal user under $HOME/.rvm

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 18 '15 at 21:44

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You might have RVM installed under the wrong user. RVM won't let you install if it's installed under another user.

You can uninstall it from the other user with rvm implode.

Log over to the other user and RVM will install correctly!

answered Feb 18 '15 at 21:44

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 23 '11 at 04:17

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Put this in your .bashrc instead (without echo)

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

And restart your terminal.

answered Dec 23 '11 at 04:17

Sergio Tulentsev

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It didn't help. Anyway there is no such directory. – Andrzej Gis Dec 23 '11 at 10:18
Then your first step have gone wrong. Do you have a log from it? Or can you retry? – Sergio Tulentsev Dec 23 '11 at 12:58

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 27 '19 at 09:44

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https://rvm.io/rvm/security#ipv6-issues You can forbid gpg's internal dirmngr from using IPv6 by add the following line to ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf:

answered Dec 27 '19 at 09:44

江洋大盗

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