rbenv: bash: rbenv: command not found

I’m currently running Debian Wheezy. I followed the instructions for the standard rbenv installation on http://octopress.org/docs/setup/rbenv/ Since I’m running Debian, I changed the commands to add rbenv to my .bashrc instead of .bash_profile:

cd
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build '

I then ran source ~/.bashrc and got the following error: bash: rbenv: command not found

Any ideas about what I’m doing wrong?

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@eshacker make sure your shell is restarted. instead of exec $SHELL try this: exec -l $SHELL it’ works for me.

if it doesn’t cut it, go ahead and reinstall ruby. and continue this chapter

benyaminpy on Jan 10, 2019

I had same problem after following https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-with-rbenv-on-centos-7 :

On centos 7

sudo yum install -y git-core zlib zlib-devel gcc-c++ patch readline readline-devel libyaml-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel make bzip2 autoconf automake libtool bison curl sqlite-devel

cd git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv echo ‘export PATH=“$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH”’ >> ~/.bash_profile echo ‘eval “$(rbenv init -)”’ >> ~/.bash_profile exec $SHELL

git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build echo ‘export PATH=“$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH”’ >> ~/.bash_profile exec $SHELL

But this put things in ~/.bash_profile, didn’t work. I put relevant path exports to ~/.bashrc and it worked.

I also installed rbenv-doctor: curl -fsSL https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv-installer/raw/master/bin/rbenv-doctor | bash to check the state of things. Then, just rbenv install -v 2.3.0

eshacker on Feb 3, 2016

Hi @magoo23. One thing that stands out to me from what you shared is that you might have been logged in as the wrong user. It seems that you might have been logged in as root before? Can you ensure you’re logged in as ordinary user, and that rbenv is cloned into ~/.rbenv and owned by your user (not root) and that ~/.bashrc is like you shown us above. It might help!

mislav on Oct 18, 2015