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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?

John Powel
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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!

John Powel
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  • I kept having permissions issues using this approach, issues which eventually led to me having to nuke the old rvm location and reinstall back into my home directory from scratch. YMMV, but make sure you backup everything first, just in case. – Chris Bloom May 21 '14 at 15:52
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    have you tried to just move an create a symbolic link on home ? – Arnold Roa May 03 '15 at 17:54
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You can do

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