Installing Ruby 1.9.2 through RVM fails

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/Manage开发者_开发问答r: 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?

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.

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!

Maybe "How to install Ruby on Rails in Ubuntu 11.10" will help you.

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 (i.e. /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.