RVM installation error for RoR in Ubuntu

Question

I'm trying to configure Ruby on Rails on my new eeeubuntu installation, and I think I'm having problems installing RVM properly.

I installed GIT and everything went well. I installed RVM, and in the installation I was told to add

if [[ -s /home/derek/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source /home/derek/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi 

At the end of .bashrc Which I did.

He then said that if I have a return to .bashrc, it will cause errors. Therefore he said everything below

 # If not running interactively, don't do anything [ -z "$PS1" ] && return 

In .bash_profile Which I did. When I try to run "rvm install 1.9.1", I get this

 No command 'rvm' found, but there are 20 similar ones rvm: command not found 

So what have I done wrong?

Here are the contents of my .bashrc and .bash_profile

.bashrc

 # ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc) # for examples # If not running interactively, don't do anything [ -z "$PS1" ] && return 

.bash_profile

 # don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options # don't overwrite GNU Midnight Commander setting of `ignorespace'. HISTCONTROL=$HISTCONTROL${HISTCONTROL+,}ignoredups # ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth # append to the history file, don't overwrite it shopt -s histappend # for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1) # check the window size after each command and, if necessary, # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS. shopt -s checkwinsize # make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1) [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)" # set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below) if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot) fi # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color) case "$TERM" in xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;; esac # uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned # off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window # should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt #force_color_prompt=yes if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then # We have color support; assume it compliant with Ecma-48 # (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such # a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.) color_prompt=yes else color_prompt= fi fi if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01; 34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' else PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' fi unset color_prompt force_color_prompt # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir case "$TERM" in xterm*|rxvt*) PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1" ;; *) ;; esac # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)" alias ls='ls --color=auto' #alias dir='dir --color=auto' #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto' fi # some more ls aliases #alias ll='ls -l' #alias la='ls -A' #alias l='ls -CF' # Alias definitions. # You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like # ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly. # See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package. if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases fi # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile # sources /etc/bash.bashrc). if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then . /etc/bash_completion fi if [[ -s /home/derek/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source /home/derek/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi 

Answer 1

You do not need to move around, but to remove return .

You also need to add the code in .bashrc . You added it to .bash_profile , but not to .bashrc . The line you must add is

 if [[ -s /home/derek/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source /home/derek/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi 

Please read the installer instructions carefully! I'm not sure if there are other things you need to add.

Answer 2

I added to .bashrc export PATH=~/.rvm/bin:$PATH and it worked for me

Answer 3

On my ubuntu I did

 echo 'source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"' >> $HOME/.bashrc 

So my .bashrc is as follows

 tail -n 5 $HOME/.bashrc PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"