Question

I am trying to install ruby using rvm. I get the following error on the below command –

rvm install 1.9.3

Extracting rubygems-latest-1.8 …

ERROR: Error running ‘gunzip <
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/archives/rubygems-latest-1.8.tgz | tar xf – -C
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/src’, please read
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/log/ruby-1.9.3-p194/rubygems.extract.log

Installing rubygems for
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby

ERROR: Error running
‘GEM_PATH=”/usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194:/usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global:/usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194:/usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global”
GEM_HOME=”/usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194″
“/usr/share/ruby-rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby”
“/usr/share/ruby-rvm/src/rubygems-latest-1.8/setup.rb”‘, please read
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/log/ruby-1.9.3-p194/rubygems.install.log

Below is the extract from the log file –

[2012-07-25 09:29:03] gunzip <
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/archives/rubygems-latest-1.8.tgz | tar xf – -C
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/src

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: This does not look like a tar
archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
[2012-07-25 09:31:08] gunzip <
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/archives/rubygems-latest-1.8.tgz | tar xf – -C
/usr/share/ruby-rvm/src

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: This does not look like a tar
archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Answer 1

you are using version of RVM broken by packaging for Ubuntu, use this answer to fix: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9056395/497756