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I'm struggling with rvm. This isn't the first time I've installed rvm, and it isn't the first time I've had problems with it, but this problem is proving to be a right pain; and all of the articles that appear related are either completely out of date, or don't solve it.

I've installed rvm, but when I try to install any version of Ruby I receive an error.

Here's the command I'm using:

$ rvm package install readline  
$ rvm install ree -C --with-readline-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr  

ree-1.8.7-2010.02 - #fetching (ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02)  
ree-1.8.7-2010.02 - #extracting ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.02 to /Users/Richard/.rvm/src/ree-1.8.7-2010.02  
ree-1.8.7-2010.02 - #installing  
Error running './installer -a /Users/Richard/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2010.02  --dont-install-useful-gems ', please check /Users/Richard/.rvm/log/ree-1.8.7-2010.02/install*.log  
There has been an error while trying to run the ree installer. Halting the installation.

and in the log file: 

ossl_x509revoked.c:64: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘ASN1_dup’ from incompatible pointer type  
readline.c: In function ‘username_completion_proc_call’:  
readline.c:734: error: ‘username_completion_function’ undeclared (first use in this function)  
readline.c:734: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once  
readline.c:734: error: for each function it appears in.)  
make[1]: *** [readline.o] Error 1  
make: *** [all] Error 1

Given that I'm explicitly telling rvm to use another install of readline, does anyone know where I'm going wrong?

Daf

purpletonic
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Updated to the latest version of rvm

rvm get stable

and then ran rvm reload

rvm reload

which seems to have solved this issue.

purpletonic
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I struggled with the readline problem as well. Turns on the problem was not having the right pre-requisites. I solved it by making sure everything was installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential bison openssl \
     libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core \
     lib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 \
     libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev \
     autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev

I've written up a complete tutorial to getting RVM running perfectly on Ubuntu 11.04:

http://blog.dcxn.com/2011/06/20/setting-up-rvm-on-ubuntu-11-04/

slhck
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