Error while installing ruby using rvm

Question

Am getting the below error while trying to install ruby using rvm:

$rvm install 1.9.3
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Checking requirements for ubuntu.
Installing requirements for ubuntu.
Updating system..................................................................................................
Error running 'requirements_debian_update_system ruby-1.9.3-p448',
please read /home/troy/.rvm/log/1379872584_ruby-1.9.3-p448/update_system.log
Requirements installation failed with status: 100.

Can you help me on this!

Answer 1

Remove broken or 404 repos from your /etc/apt/sources.list.

rvm will fail if you don't remove or comment them out.

To work out which aren't working, run apt-get update and see which ones are marked as failing.

Once you are using rvm, installing Ruby is easy.

rvm install ruby

rvm use ruby --default

I had the same problem.

Answer 2

It isn't unusual to not have a binary package for you distribution, and rvm should try to install from source.

First, check that it didn't actually install it:

rvm list

Otherwise, I suspect you may be missing some depedencies, which you can find with:

rvm requirements

You'll need to install those and the run the install again.

Answer 3

make sure you can update your system:

sudo apt-get update

and then start rvm installation again.

Update 1:

also it looks like you are using old version of rvm, make sure to update rvm before continuing:

rvm get stable

Answer 4

been having a similar problem and discovered a typo in grizzly.list file

http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.cononical.com precise-updates/grizzly

should have been

http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com precise-updates/grizzly

i.e. first a in canonical

is this mistake part of the ubuntu 12.04 distribution?