I’m trying to install rvm, and it wants me to edit my .bashrc or .bash_profile files to include rvm… But I can’t FIND these files anywhere. A quick google search shows that they might not exist until I make them (weird), but I can’t see any reference to WHERE I should make them.
EDIT: Okay, it from one of the responses, it looks like I need to put them in my /home directory…and I can use ls -la to see if they are really there or not (they are not), but when I make the files, and put:
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
in them, as instructed by rvm, even when I make a new shell, I still can’t type “rvm” and get anywhere.
Does that mean the files are in the wrong place, or that I made them wrong, or that the thing I put in them is wrong….I don’t even know where to begin…
I made the files (as root), by typing “vi .bashrc” and vi “.bash_profile”… but when I look at them, the files seem to be named just “bashrc” and “bash_profile”. SO, I did “mv bashrc .bashrc” and that seemed to do the trick AND hid them…but…I still can’t type “rvm” in a new shell…
Edit: When I type
$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm
I got a “permission denied” error, even while root. So I went there, and the “rvm” file doesn’t have executable permissions, for whatever reason… SO I set it to be executable. So now I don’t get that error anymore…but I ALSO still can’t run RVM, even in a new shell.
SOLUTION:
I was completely mis-understanding what “root of your home directory” meant, and was trying to put them in the directory named “home”. INSTEAD, I was supposed to put them in the place where $HOME was pointing to. Now that the files are in the right place (and .bashrc at least already existed, so i just edited it), everything is working perfectly
You should make them in the root of your home directory, if they don’t exist already.