Ruby RVM apt-get update error

Question

I get following error when trying to install anything with RVM:

Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
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Answer 1

You can try to skip the rvm updating system so apt-get won't be called.

# Disable RVM from trying to install necessary software via apt-get
rvm autolibs disable

# Then try installing Ruby:
rvm install 2.4.0

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/16759839/1212791

Answer 2

I was getting an error similar to this while running curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby. It took a while but I finally realised that I had synaptic open: the installer couldn't run because apt was locked

Answer 3

This happened to me as well when I was trying to install a version of Ruby as a non-sudoer user. However, when I logged in as my admin user (with sudo privileges) and ran sudo apt-get update | grep "Failed" I would get no errors and, yet, rvm install x.x.x would still result in asking for a password (when I ran rvm install as the non-sudoer user.)

I was banging my head with this for a while because I didn't want my rvm (regular user) user to have sudo privileges. Then after some putzing around on Google I figured out that I could log in as my admin user.

Go through the steps of installing RVM for that user (as per their documentation):

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3

$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

$ source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Then (as the admin user) jump straight into installing the RVM required packages:

$ rvm requirements

at which point it asks for my sudo password and installs the required apt packages for the entire system after I enter my password.

Then I log off from server as admin user and log back in as rvm user (with no sudo privileges) and try to install a version of Ruby.

$ rvm install x.x.x

and now it works.

Answer 4

this problem caused in apt-get update so you have to disable the PPA :

System Settings>Software & Updates>Other Software

then reinstall.

Answer 5

You don't need of apt-get to install rvm and to use it !

Just curl (apt-get install curl)

Launch \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

and rvm install 2.1.1 or another ruby's version and it works ;)

gem update etc...

RVM will be independent of apt-get so you'll have no longer issu.

For more informations : https://rvm.io/rvm/install

Answer 6

I just tried

sudo apt-get update and found some of them are failing; for example..

Err http://extras.ubuntu.com raring/main Sources 404 Not Found

I went ahead and deleted those items from the list here..

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

It worked!