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Asked: 2026-05-22T23:42:45+00:00

I installed rvm successfully as a root on CentOS 5.5. Then I tried to

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I installed rvm successfully as a root on CentOS 5.5.
Then I tried to to install ruby-1.8.7-head

rvm install 1.8.7-head

And receive such error

Installing Ruby from source to: /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-head, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)…

ruby-1.8.7-head – #fetching
Cloning from [github url], this may take a while depending on your connection…
Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/rvm/repos/ruby-1.8.7-head/.git/
error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed while accessing [github url]

fatal: HTTP request failed
cloning from [github.com/ruby.git] failed, now attempting to clone from https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git, this may take a while depending on your connection…
Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/rvm/repos/ruby-1.8.7-head/.git/
error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed while accessing [github.com/ruby/ruby.git/info/refs]

fatal: HTTP request failed
ERROR: There has been an error while trying to fetch the repository.
Halting the installation.
ERROR: There has been an error fetching the ruby interpreter. Halting the installation.

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  1. Editorial Team

    TO FIX THIS ISSUE

    (Optional) backup certificates

    cp /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt /root/backup/

    Get new cert

    curl http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem -o /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

    After that I got stuck with next error

    rvm install 1.8.7-head

    Here it is

    Installing Ruby from source to: /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-head, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)…

    ruby-1.8.7-head – #fetching
    HEAD is now at 61ac67c merge revision(s) 31731:31734:
    From https://github.com/ruby/ruby
    * branch ruby_1_8_7 -> FETCH_HEAD
    Already up-to-date.
    Copying from repo to src path…
    Running autoreconf
    ERROR: Error running ‘autoreconf’, please read /usr/local/rvm/log/ruby-1.8.7-head/autoreconf.log
    ERROR: Skipping configure step, ‘configure’ does not exist, did autoreconf not run successfully?
    ruby-1.8.7-head – #compiling
    ERROR: Error running ‘make ‘, please read /usr/local/rvm/log/ruby-1.8.7-head/make.log
    ERROR: There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.

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