How to change rvm install location?

Question

Currently I have rvm installed under /home/john/.rvm

How do move rvm to the location /opt/local/rvm ?

I tried to use the rvmrc file to take care of this (according to the rvm document here: https://rvm.io/workflow/rvmrc/ ) but no luck, I found a rvmrc file under /etc/

Is there any step by step instruction I could follow?

Answer 1

Figure out myself by doing some research online, hope this can help someone out:

Suppose you want to move from home/username/.rvm to /opt/local/rvm

1. Update you .bash_profile or .bashrc to:

   if [ -s "$HOME/.rvmrc" ]; then
       source "$HOME/.rvmrc"
   fi # to have $rvm_path defined if set
   if [ -s "${rvm_path-$HOME/.rvm}/scripts/rvm" ]; then
       source "${rvm_path-$HOME/.rvm}/scripts/rvm"
   fi
   

2. find your .rvmrc under $HOME/.rvmrc, if not found, create one and put this line in it:

   export rvm_path=/opt/local/rvm

3. move your file to the new location : mv $HOME/.rvm/* /opt/local/rvm
4. execute rvm repair all and rvm reload

And you are good to go!

Answer 2

You can do

curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s -- --path /path/you/want/rvm/installed/to