Question

I install RVM by this tutorial and on the step number 4 echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ' >> ~/.bash_profile I got this one error

-bash: /Users/my_name/.bash_profile: Permission denied

I tried it run with the sudo, but I am still getting this error

Answer 1

Don’t use sudo for rvm installs if you don’t want a global install.

To fix a permission error like this, check the current permissions on that file:

ls -la ~/.bash_profile

It should be owned by the my_name user and have read and write access. If it’s not, change the ownership like so:

sudo chown my_name:my_name /Users/my_name/.bash_profile

and any potential permission errors with

chmod 600 /Users/my_name/.bash_profile

If you ever used root to install your user’s rvm, fix it like this:

sudo chown -R my_name:my_name /Users/my_name/.rvm