Dreamhost keeps asking for password when installing rvm ruby version

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Problem

After installing rvm on dreamhost, when trying to install any ruby version afterwards, there is a prompt for password, and when entering the user’s password there is the message that the user is not in the sudoers list.

Solution

To be able to install the rvm ruby version you would like you should be installing them by using the following which is based on the answer here :

rvm list remote
ruby-1.9.3-p194
   ruby-1.9.3-p286
   ruby-1.9.3-p327
   ruby-1.9.3-p362
   ruby-1.9.3-p374
   ruby-1.9.3-p392
   ruby-1.9.3-p429
   ruby-1.9.3-p448
   ruby-2.0.0-p0
   ruby-2.0.0-p195
   ruby-2.0.0-p247

and then:

rvm mount -r https://rvm.io/binaries/debian/6/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0-p247.tar.bz2 --verify-downloads 1