RVM installation failed, no fix seems to work

Question

I know other people have had issues installing RVM, but I've looked into their questions/answers and it hasn't helped. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10, and am following the quick install directions here: https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/

Step One works nicely:

    ~$ bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
Downloading RVM from wayneeseguin branch stable
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   125  100   125    0     0    909      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1524
100  799k  100  799k    0     0  1059k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1059k

Upgrading the RVM installation in /home/nsmith/.rvm/
    RVM sourcing line found in: /home/nsmith/.bash_history.

Upgrade Notes:

  * No new notes to display.

# RVM:  Shell scripts enabling management of multiple ruby environments.
# RTFM: https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
# HELP: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=rvm (#rvm on irc.freenode.net)
# Screencast: http://screencasts.org/episodes/how-to-use-rvm

# In case of any issues read output of 'rvm requirements' and/or 'rvm notes'

Upgrade of RVM in /home/nsmith/.rvm/ is complete.

# nsmith,
#
#   Thank you for using RVM!
#   I sincerely hope that RVM helps to make your life easier and more enjoyable!!!
#
# ~Wayne

Lovely. Step 2 also runs fine, with no output. Step 3 returns:

The program 'rvm' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm

From what I've found out, this is probably because I initially tried the first step with sudo, and screwed everything up. I likely screwed things up further by taking the bait and installing with sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm, which is apparently outdated or broken.

Looking for answers led me to:

http://beginrescueend.com/support/troubleshooting/

Where I executed the .sh file outlined under the section "How do I completely clean out all traces of RVM from my system, including for system wide installs?" I also followed the instructions and checked .bashrc, .bash_profiles, .profiles etc for rvm mentions and removed them.

I also tried the answer I found at the StackOverflow question "How can I uninstall Ruby on ubuntu?". Namely, sudo aptitude purge ruby and then, since I didn't actually yet have ruby, sudo aptitude purge ruby-rvm. I've also tried sudo apt-get purge ruby-rvm

Lastly, I've tried the instructions here @mkoby.com entitled "completely-removing-rvm". This basically says remove .rvm* files and run sudo groupdel rvm

I've tried a lot to remove rvm from my system so that I can run a clean install, without sudo, and finally get things going. Does anyone have a suggestion? I'd really appreciate it.

Answer 1

To fix it once:

$ source ~/.profile
$ rvm

To fix it always, as gotqn said, you can add it at the end of your ~/.bash_profile

$ echo ". .profile" >> ~/.bash_profile