Installing Ruby 1.9.2 through RVM fails

Question

I installed RVM following the official guide on rvm . I installed Ruby 1.8.7 with rvm install 1.8.7 and then set it as default with rvm 1.8.7 --default .

Then I tried to install 1.9.2 with rvm install 1.9.2 , and also tried rvm install 1.9.2-head . Everything went fine until I got to the "ruby-1.9.2-head - #installing-part".

Then I got a huge error list complaining about my *nix bash commands:

/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1760: sed: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1762: mv: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1762: chmod: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1632: cp: command not found
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 233: mkdir: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 237: date: command not found
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 233: mkdir: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 237: date: command not found
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1736: mkdir: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1738: ln: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1760: sed: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1762: mv: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1762: chmod: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1760: sed: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1762: mv: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1762: chmod: command not found
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 233: mkdir: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 237: date: command not found
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1562: cp: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1573: chmod: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1562: cp: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1573: chmod: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1562: cp: command is not
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1573: chmod: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1562: cp: command not found
/Home/Kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1573: chmod: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1562: cp: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1573: chmod: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1562: cp: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1573: chmod: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1562: cp: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/Manager: line 1573: chmod: command not found
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 276: mkdir: command not found
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 280: date: command not found
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist
/Home/kevin/.rvm/scripts/utilities: line 656: cp: command not found
/Usr/bin/env: bash: The file or directory does not exist

If I enter rvm 1.9.2 --default I get the same error output and my $PATH variable is completely cleared.

Does anyone have a solution on this problem?

Answer 1

To reinstall and start fresh remove RVM, just do rm -rfv ~/.rvm and also rm ~/.rvmrc if it's there.

Maybe " Install Rails 3 on OSX with RVM " will help you.

Answer 2

I have the same problem, it looks like the whole RVM script is broken. The rvm install ree command didn't fail but when running rvm use ree I started getting problems.

The $PATH variable is not empty, like with rvm use 1.9.2 , but it missed some important paths like /bin and /usr/bin .

Here is an example console session:

calas@chamonix:~$ ls
Desktop  dev  Documents ...
calas@chamonix:~$ rvm use ree
info: Using /home/calas/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2010.02
calas@chamonix:~$ ls
Command 'ls' is available in '/bin/ls'
The command could not be located because '/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
ls: command not found
calas@chamonix:~$ rvm info
Command 'sed' is available in '/bin/sed'
The command could not be located because '/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
sed: command not found
bash: grep: No such file or directory
bash: mkdir: No such file or directory
bash: grep: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/env: bash: No such file or directory

After running rvm info the $PATH variable is empty.

I removed the whole RVM installation with rvm implode and reinstalled but that didn't work.

I guess the solution is to downgrade or wait for a new release.

---

The solution is ready in the git source:

rvm update --head && rvm reload

and problem solved, thanks Wayne!

Answer 3

Something like this just happened to me and, upon closer inspection, I was just missing /user/bin on my path. But why?

Turns out, after some investigation, I was missing a colon before $PATH and this caused the first directory in the default path (ie /user/bin) to get omitted.

Once I changed this:
export PATH=$SCRIPTS:$WORKSPACE:$ANDROID_HOME:$HEROKU$PATH
to this:
export PATH=$SCRIPTS:$WORKSPACE:$ANDROID_HOME:$HEROKU:$PATH

(notice the colon added before the last '$')
Everything worked again. Obviously, your path will vary but check for missing colons.

Answer 4

也许“ 如何在Ubuntu 11.10中安装Ruby on Rails ”将为您提供帮助。