Cannot Use Rvm-Installed Ruby With Sudo

Cannot use RVM-installed Ruby with sudo

Use rvmsudo command instead of sudo

RVM installed by Ruby not working?

RVM requires a minor addition to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile to initialize it when you log-in. It is specified in the installation docs in the Post Install section. Did you do that?

Per your rvm info output, it looks like you haven't completed your installation. All the entries in the output should have corresponding values. So, I suspect you haven't added:

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"  # This loads RVM into a shell session.

to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile and then started a new session.

If you are doing a "Multi-User" installation then you'll need to do a lot more. Have you modified /etc/profile, or, if you are using Bash as your shell, have you modified /etc/bash.bashrc to include:


# Load RVM if it is installed,
#  first try to load  user install
#  then try to load root install, if user install is not there.
if [ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ] ; then
  . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
elif [ -s "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm" ] ; then
  . "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm"
fi

and started a new shell?

Personally I don't like the multi-user install as much as the single-user install, and don't recommend it but your mileage might vary.

As a FYI: In a discussion with the RVM maintainers on IRC last year, they told me they do not recommend the system-wide installation, and instead recommend the local "single-user" installation, even for servers.

Rvm ruby Permission denied

You have a multiuser installation of rvm - this is not recommended because of the troubles you can get with it (like yours).

Since you are already there this should fix it:

rvmsudo rvm get stable --auto-dotfiles
rvm fix-permissions system

Also make sure you are in rvm group - if not add yourself:

rvm group add rvm $USER

and log in to a new shell (log out and log back in).

EC2: Unable to rvm install ruby

Try to change permissions to rvm directory by this command:

sudo chmod -R a+xwr /usr/local/rvm

rvm install: ruby installation error

Uninstall and reinstall rvm with

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

For posterity, I'll add that the part of the error that says

Installing Ruby from source to: /usr/share/...

is what got me thinking about a broken installation of rvm which, as I said, is normally entirely contained in the ~/.rvm directory.

rvm install 2.6.2 is not working in ubuntu 20.04

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Add those lines in sources.list file

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal partner

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssl1.0-dev
rvm install 2.6.2

Problem installing RVM

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.

Cannot Use Rvm-Installed Ruby With Sudo