I am getting rvm: command not found after installation of rvm

Question

I know the above question is very common question. I have gone through multiple posts on this topic. But I didn't get any resolution.

I have installed rvm locally. We already have the installation files. SO went into the folder and run the install command.

$ ./install 

Then I checked ./rvm folder in the Users home folde

$ cd ~/.rvm 

folder exists. Hence Installation is successful.

Now I am typing rvm in the command line

$ rvm

I am getting below exception

$ rvm
-sh: rvm: command not found

After reading the multiple articles in stackoverflow on this issue, I learned that I have to add the below lines in .bash_profile as I am using Mac OSX 10.7.3

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

Even after I am getting same exception while typing rvm. Is there any thing extra I need to do? or Am I missing some thing? Please help

Recessive

Answer 1

Steps to try out:

1. Log out and login to your system.

2. Open a new terminal and manually run

source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm

then

rvm

Check these work-arounds.

Update:

To avoid running

source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm

every time you open a terminal, include this line into ~/.MacOSX/environment in your Mac (This is similar to ~/.bashrc in GNU/Linux-based systems under $home aka ~ directory).

Bureaucratize

I have tried with the above specified steps. How ever I am getting "-bash: $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm: No such file or directory" while running the command "$ source '$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm'". And after that if I run rvm in terminal still I am getting the specified exception. Please help – Recessive

@Ramesh please post your rvm installation directory path. – Bureaucratize

@Ramesh irrespective of the installation path, if your rvm was installed correctly, then run source path_to_rvm_directory/scripts/rvm. It should run the script rvm and then type the command rvm. – Bureaucratize

It is working. Thank you. Earlier I have run with quotes source '$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm'. Now I have run with out quotes. Thanks – Recessive

Thanks for your on time support. Really appreciated – Recessive

For me, it was source /usr/share/rvm/scripts/rvm that worked. – Circumambulate

Answer 2

In my case, i am using Ubuntu Bash in Windows 10 and to fix the problem i used:

source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm

Axel

Solved my problem. – Forever

This solved my problem when setting up RVM in Docker – Scever

Answer 3

For those that are doing this in 2018 just add

source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm 

to your .bash_profile within your home directory.

Constituent

Answer 4

you need to enable login shell in terminal emulator preferences, sometimes it is needed to use /usr/bin/bash --login, here is an example https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/

after enabling login shell you need to close terminal application and open it fresh.

Sawicki

This is the solution for an entirely different issue where the rvm command is found but the user will receive the error RVM is not a function. It is also not sometimes but either-or. The user should either change the terminal preferences and reopen the terminal or issue bash --login in which case terminal reopen is not needed but it is a 1-time solution only. – Xanthous

Answer 5

I just had to open a new Terminal session.

After I installed it using:

curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
rvm install 2.2

Gentlemanfarmer

Answer 6

For Ubuntu 18.04, I had to run the command below to solve the issue after rvm was installed using instruction from here.

source /usr/share/rvm/scripts/rvm

Nerveless

Answer 7

This is one of other options available for RVM:

source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh

Jenn