Problem installing RVM

Question

I have executed the commands as prescribed in the instructions at the rvm website but things don't seem to work..

Fetching the code from the git repository runs smoothly but when I try to use

 rvm notes

Error:

/usr/local/bin/rvm: line 73: /home/cody/.rvm/scripts/rvm: No such file or directory

flashes in multiple lines and doesn't stop till I hit ctrl+C.. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and currently I am running ruby 1.9.2.. Sorry, if I am missing out any necessary information. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Look at the section "Troubleshooting your install" here. Since you are on Ubuntu, you probably need to make further mods to you .bashrc

Answer 2

I have got same problem after installation. Then I restarted terminal and it started working poperly.

Answer 3

Ack, I didn't mean to post this as a comment on the question. Anyway, if I had to guess, I'd say you installed rvm using sudo or as root. If that is the case, remove it and reinstall without sudo:

sudo rm -rf $HOME/.rvm $HOME/.rvmrc /etc/rvmrc /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh \
  /usr/local/rvm /usr/local/bin/rvm
sudo /usr/sbin/groupdel rvm # this might fail, it's not that important

Open new terminal window/tab and make sure rvm is removed:

env | grep rvm

The output should be empty, sometimes it's needed to relogin, after it's empty you can continue:

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

It works perfectly fine installed for the local user.

Answer 4

in .bashrc have you changed the

[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

to

if [[ -n "$PS1" ]]; then

and added this to the end of the file:

fi

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

Answer 5

I have executed the commands as prescribed in the instructions at the rvm website.

WHICH commands? There are several pages containing instructions to install RVM depending on whether you want a single-user "sandbox" or are installing system-wide for a multi-user system as the administrator.

Because you have RVM in /usr/local, I think you tried to do a system-wide install but didn't get it right. For 99% of us, that is the wrong installation method, and instead you should use the single-user installation, which is simple and puts everything in ~/.rvm.

Either way, be sure to read the entire instructions. And, if doing a single-user install, finish the install with the "Post Install" modifications to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile for a single-user, then start a new terminal session.

When using the single-user install NEVER use sudo to install gems to a RVM-managed Ruby, even though the instructions for a gem might say to.

Answer 6

I just had a similar problem.

It turned out that many files in ~/.rvm/scripts/ and ~/.rvm/src/rvm/scripts/ which obviously should be executable did not have execute permissions. Running a script on both directories to set all files to executable solved that immediate problem.