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Photography, cars and IT » Blog Archive » install rvm as root — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:46:50 +0000

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By: Stoney

Stoney — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:43:34 +0000

"Ultimately, it would be nice if rvm had a "group ownership" flag which would tell it to do a g+w on files it creates" I think you want ACLs. A good brief description can be found here: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMan...

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By: tsykoduk

tsykoduk — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:31:51 +0000

Hi Chris;

It appears to me that the rvm bashrc step is not set up correctly. You might want to look at that. Also – Sutto and Wayne have dropped baked in rootable rvm support – http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/deployment/system-w… – you might want to check that out as well!

Thanks!

By: MSPChris

MSPChris — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:18:00 +0000

Follow-up from last post, with the relevant terminal output in a pastie. http://pastie.org/1059434

By: MSPChris

MSPChris — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:01:58 +0000

I installed per the instructions above, but rvm is only fully functional under my root account.

I have a project with an .rvmrc file:

rvm ree-1.8.7

When I cd into the project folder as a root, I get the message from rvm saying I need to install ree-1.8.7.

If I exit root, and return to my regular user, I don't get that error message from rvm.

Using Ubuntu Lucid, here is my terminal output:

chris@carson:~$ sudo -i
root@carson:~# cd /httpd/draftblast

warn: ree ree-1.8.7-2010.02 is not installed.

info: To install do: 'rvm install ree-1.8.7-2010.02'
root@carson:/httpd/draftblast# exit
logout
chris@carson:~$ cd /httpd/draftblast
chris@carson:/httpd/draftblast$

Note the error message when using root account, no error message under regular account.

When I reviewed the env variables for both accounts, it looks like the root env shows all of the rvm path variables, but the regular account does not. Any suggestions?

I think just copying the missing env variables from root to my regular user would work, but before I do that I want to make sure that I haven't configured anything incorrectly or if anyone else has had this problem running the instructions given here?

Thank you!!

By: tsykoduk

tsykoduk — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:53:38 +0000

Awesome – I'll pull the changes into my script. Thanks!!

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:10:18 +0000

I made a few tweaks to your script and put them up in a new gist. There were a few bad newlines (/n instead of n) and I moved the RVM sourcing script into a profile.d script. This works with CentOS 5.3-5.5. I haven't looked to see if the others use profile.d. http://gist.github.com/474775

By: alexnhatle

alexnhatle — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:49:52 +0000

You will need to also add

# Load RVM if it is installed,
# first try to load user install
# then try to load root install, if user install is not there.
if [ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ] ; then
. "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
elif [ -s "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm" ] ; then
. "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm"
fi

to the end of "/etc/bashrc" file in order for capistrano to properly detect the path to rake. Otherwise your cap deployment script will fail for any task that needs to run rake.
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