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Charutha Bandara
Charutha Bandara
5,958 Points
Posted by Charutha Bandara
Charutha Bandara
5,958 Points

rbenv install ruby failed

I'm trying to install ruby using this video: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/installing-a-ruby-development-environment/installing-a-ruby-development-environment/installing-ruby-on-mac

I was doing fine installing it but then my laptop died so I tried to install it again and terminal gave me this error

Charuthas-MacBook-Pro:~ charuthabandara$ rbenv install 2.1.5
Downloading openssl-1.0.1j.tar.gz...
-> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/1b60ca8789ba6f03e8ef20da2293b8dc131c39d83814e775069f02d26354edf3
Installing openssl-1.0.1j...

BUILD FAILED (OS X 10.10 using ruby-build 20141113-17-gaa1976b)

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/mv/2ltq_76x52vd5t1rc2xb3j140000gn/T/ruby-build.20141127182036.863
Results logged to /var/folders/mv/2ltq_76x52vd5t1rc2xb3j140000gn/T/ruby-build.20141127182036.863.log

Last 10 log lines:
installing man7/des_modes.7
installing man3/dh.3
installing man3/dsa.3
installing man3/ecdsa.3
installing man3/engine.3
installing man3/err.3
installing man3/evp.3
installing man3/hmac.3
/bin/sh: /Users/charuthabandara/.rbenv/versions/2.1.5/openssl/ssl/man/man3/hmac.3: Too many levels of symbolic links
make: *** [install_docs] Error 1
Charuthas-MacBook-Pro:~ charuthabandara$

1 Answer

Ralph King
Ralph King
3,819 Points
Ralph King
Ralph King
3,819 Points

Did you get this working?

That error message in Unix usually means you have a circular path somewhere. Check your path:

echo $PATH

or your bash profile and see if you can find the problem.

Charutha Bandara
Charutha Bandara
5,958 Points
Charutha Bandara
Charutha Bandara
5,958 Points

Yes, I just uninstalled it and reinstalled it