How to remove RVM Ruby Version Manager from my system

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How can I remove RVM  Ruby Version Manager  from my system

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A lot of people do a common mistake of thinking that  rvm implode  does it   You need to delete all traces of any  rm files   Also   it will take some manual deletions from root   Make sure   it gets deleted and also all the ruby versions u installed using it

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If you re still getting a env  ruby executable hooks  No such file or directory when calling some Ruby package  that means RVM left a little gift for you in your  PATH   Run the following to find the offending scripts   grep     usr bin env ruby executable hooks   usr local bin     Then rm all the matches  You ll have to reinstall all of those libraries with an RVM-free gem  of course

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Run   rvm implode   Now you need to uninstall the RVM gem using   gem uninstall rvm   Check if there are any remaining RVM files in your home directory  if yes remove them   Go to the home directory and list all hidden files   ls -a  rm   rvm rm   rvmrc

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If the other answers don   t remove RVM throughly enough for you  RVM   s Troubleshooting page contains this section      How do I completely clean out all traces of RVM from my system  including for system wide installs       Here is a custom script which we name as cleanout-rvm  While you can definitely use rvm implode as a regular user or rvmsudo rvm implode for a system wide install  this script is useful as it steps completely outside of RVM and cleans out RVM without using RVM itself  leaving no traces          bin bash  usr bin sudo rm -rf  HOME  rvm  HOME  rvmrc  etc rvmrc  etc profile d rvm sh  usr local rvm  usr local bin rvm  usr bin sudo  usr sbin groupdel rvm  bin echo  RVM is removed  Please check all  bashrc  bash profile  profile  zshrc for RVM source lines and delete or comment out if this was a Per-User installation

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When using implode and you see   Psychologist intervened  cancelling implosion  crisis avoided      Then you may want to use --force  rvm implode --force   Then remove RVM from the following locations   rm -rf  usr local rvm sudo rm  etc profile d rvm sh sudo rm  etc rvmrc sudo rm    rvmrc   Check the following files and remove or comment out references to RVM      bashrc     bash profile     profile     zshrc    zlogin   Comment-out remove the following lines from  etc profile    source  etc profile d sm sh  source  etc profile d rvm sh    etc profile is a read-only file so use   sudo vim  etc profile   And after making the change write using a bang    w    Finally re-login restart your terminal

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Remove the RVM load script from   bash rc or   zsh rc  then use   rm -rf   rvm   Or    rvm implode

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In addition to  tadman s answer I removed the wrappers in  usr local bin as well as the file  etc profile d rvm   The wrappers include   erb gem irb rake rdoc ri ruby testrb

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There s a simple command built-in that will pull it   rvm implode   This will remove the rvm  directory and all the rubies built within it  In order to remove the final trace of rvm  you need to remove the rvm gem  too   gem uninstall rvm   If you ve made modifications to your PATH you might want to pull those  too  Check your  bashrc   profile and  bash profile files  among other things   You may also have an  etc rvmrc file  or one in your home directory    rvmrc that may need to be removed as well

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Per RVM s troubleshooting documentation  How do I completely clean out all traces of RVM from my system  including for system wide installs        Here is a custom script which we name as  cleanout-rvm   While you can definitely use rvm implode as a regular user or rvmsudo rvm implode for a system wide install  this script is useful as it steps completely outside of RVM and cleans out RVM without using RVM itself  leaving no traces       bin bash  usr bin sudo rm -rf  HOME  rvm  HOME  rvmrc  etc rvmrc  etc profile d rvm sh  usr local rvm  usr local bin rvm  usr bin sudo  usr sbin groupdel rvm  bin echo  RVM is removed  Please check all  bashrc  bash profile  profile  zshrc for RVM source lines and delete or comment out if this was a Per-User installation

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For other shell newbies trying to fix the PATH variable   After following instructions in accepted answer  check and modify your PATH variable if necessary     env   grep PATH    if you see  rvm  anywhere  you need to figure out where you are setting PATH and modify   I was setting it in 3 files - so check all the following files   vim  bashrc     Delete the lines in the file referencing rvm using the dd command    wq to save and exit  source  bashrc to  reload   Repeat this process  starting with the vim command  for  profile and  bash profile

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Note that if you installed RVM via apt-get  you have to run some further steps than rvm implode or apt-get remove ruby-rvm to get it to really uninstall   See  Installing RVM on Ubuntu

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I am running Ubuntu 19 04 and followed all the instructions above and then some  Finally  what worked for me was to run  sudo apt autoremove rvm   and now when I try and reinstall RVM it s actually gone  RVM is invasive  to say the least

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