You can (but should not?) keep your previous 'system' node install, but nvm will only be available to your user account (the one used to install nvm).If you have an ~/.npmrc file, make sure it does not contain any prefix settings (which is not compatible with nvm).When using nvm you do not need sudo to globally install a module with npm -g, so instead of doing sudo npm install -g grunt, do instead npm install -g grunt.

Note: On OS X, if you have/had a 'system' node installed and want to install modules globally, keep in mind that:

How to Install Command Line Tools in OS X Mavericks & Yosemite (Without Xcode).

You can check out this blog post on how to just that: Note: On OS X, if you do not have Xcode installed and you do not wish to download the ~4.3GB file, you can install the Command Line Tools.

node on FreeBSD may need to be patched.

Note: We still have some problems with FreeBSD, because there is no official pre-built binary for FreeBSD, and building from source may need patches see the issue ticket:

fish-nvm - Wrapper around nvm for fish, delays sourcing nvm until it's actually used.

fnm - fisherman-based version manager for fish.

plugin-nvm plugin for Oh My Fish, which makes nvm and its completions available in fish shell.

fast-nvm-fish only works with version numbers (not aliases) but doesn't significantly slow your shell startup.

bass allows you to use utilities written for Bash in fish shell.

Alternatives exist, which are neither supported nor developed by us: Note: nvm does not support Fish either (see #303). Otherwise, for Windows, a few alternatives exist, which are neither supported nor developed by us: It should also work with GitBash (MSYS) or Cygwin. It should work through WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) depending on the version of WSL. Note: nvm also supports Windows in some cases. For OS X, Xcode will work, for Debian/Ubuntu based GNU/Linux, the build-essential and libssl-dev packages work. If you're running a system without prepackaged binary available, which means you're going to install node or io.js from its source code, you need to make sure your system has a C++ compiler. If you are facing issues installing node using nvm, you may want to update to one of those versions or later. Note For Macs with the Apple Silicon chip, node started offering arm64 arch Darwin packages since v16.0.0 and experimental arm64 support when compiling from source since v14.17.0. Try adding the snippet from the install section, that finds the correct nvm directory and loads nvm, to your usual profile ( ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc).įor more information about this issue and possible workarounds, please refer here

You could fix this by adding source ~/ to it or following the next step below. bash_profile (or ~/.profile) does not source your ~/.bashrc properly. If the above doesn't fix the problem, you may try the following: Try opening a new tab/window in your terminal and retry. If the above didn't help, you might need to restart your terminal instance. Restarting your terminal/opening a new tab/window, or running the source command will load the command and the new configuration. You might need to restart your terminal instance or run. You need to manually add these lines to ~/.zshrc and run. You have previously used bash, but you have zsh installed. Create one of them with touch ~/.bash_profile or touch ~/.bashrc and run the install script again. bashrc files where the command is set up. If you use bash, the previous default shell, your system may not have. Create one with touch ~/.zshrc and run the install script again.

zshrc to update, none is installed by default. Since macOS 10.15, the default shell is zsh and nvm will look for. If you get nvm: command not found after running the install script, one of the following might be the reason: You need to manually install the Xcode command line tools before running the install script, otherwise, it'll fail.

Since OS X 10.9, /usr/bin/git has been preset by Xcode command line tools, which means we can't properly detect if Git is installed or not. Calling nvm use automatically in a directory with a.Default Global Packages From File While Installing.Migrating Global Packages While Installing.

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