Question

I am attempting to install RVM on Xubuntu and am having no luck getting the OS/terminal to recognize rvm as something that it can call.

I have been following the instructions here: http://beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/

I first call:

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

This seems to be executing correctly. I then run:

sudo echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bashrc

The text is appended to the end of the file.

Next I close out the terminal completely and reopen it. I try running:

type rvm | head -1

It responds:

bash: type: rvm: not found

If I try just calling rvm it responds:

The program 'rvm' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm

Clearly I am doing something wrong, I cannot seem to determine what that is. Thank you.

Answer 1

By using the sudo version of the install script, you have installed the multi user version of rvm, and then you ran the single user “sourcing” script with sudo…

When using the multi user version, rvm will not install into $HOME/.rvm, but in /usr/local/rvm.

Therefore you will have to use the multi user way to source the rvm script, and that is to add your user to the rvm group.

As shine already posted though, you probably didn’t want to install system wide rvm to start with.