Ruby RVM apt-get update error

Question

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

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Answer 1

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.