rvm install: ruby installation error

Question

I want to install ruby on my Linux Mint 12.

I am following this tutorial and this one.

when I run rvm install 1.9.3 I see this error:

Answer 1

Doing an rvm update as suggested in one of the comments gave me some good errors on how to fix the problem. I purged apt-get ruby-rvm as suggested in the errors and installed with curl. Worked like a charm. Looking at the file name the apt-get version of rvm is grabbing it looks like the last part of the version is missing for some reason. Instead of ruby-1.9.3-.tar.bz2 it should be ruby-1.9.3-p327.tar.bz2 or something to that effect.

Here is what I did and what was suggested by the errors after rvm update:

  sudo apt-get --purge remove ruby-rvm
  sudo rm -rf /usr/share/ruby-rvm /etc/rvmrc /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh

  open new terminal and validate environment is clean from old rvm settings:

  env | GREP_OPTIONS= \grep rvm

install RVM:

  curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

fix some more screwed up stuff from apt-get ruby-gem

   make ~/.bash_profile look like this(it loads rvm as a function in bash):

      [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

update RVM:

  rvm update
  rvm reload

install ruby

  rvm install 1.9.3
  rvm use 1.9.3 --default

install current rubygems

  rvm rubygems current

install rails

  gem install rails

Done!