CODEWITHSUNDEEP
node.jsterminalnvm
jordan
jordan

Reputation: 10812

Node Version Manager install - nvm command not found

I am trying to install NVM as per these instructions

I typed in this command in terminal:

$ curl https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh

After running the install, I restart the terminal and attempt to install Node.js with this command:

$ nvm install 0.8

but I get the response:

-bash: nvm: command not found

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong here.

Additional Info:

I've been looking around for solutions from other posts and forums. I found another solution using

$ git clone git://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/.nvm

but this times out every time I attempt that.

Upvotes: 809

Views: 1592925

Answers (30)

Walk
Walk

Reputation: 1649

Try following the commands:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash

source ~/.bashrc

Upvotes: 0

aganda
aganda

Reputation: 51

Installed nvm using brew. This is what worked for me:

    export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
  [ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
  [ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

Upvotes: 4

Deepak Lamichhane
Deepak Lamichhane

Reputation: 22704

I think you missed this step:

source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

You can run this command on the bash OR you can put it in the file /.bashrc or ~/.profile or ~/.zshrc to automatically load it

https://github.com/creationix/nvm

Upvotes: 2012

Navaneetha krishnan
Navaneetha krishnan

Reputation: 21

To overcome the above problem developer need install NVM in his machine to control the nodejs versions. For this we need to follow the below steps,

  1. All nodejs version has to be uninstalled from the system. Install Node version manager Download the Node Version Manager from the repository from Visit https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows#installation--upgrades
  2. Install nvm-windows for windows and for other operating system find the available pack and install it.
  3. If the System is having Admin user then we need to install under Admin user only since nvm will modify Environment variable while installing NodeJS.
  4. While installing we have to be very careful about the installation folder.It should be under public folder not to any specific user. note : This is the one of the problem NVM could not load in the command prompt or power shell .if you installed NVM in the default location by the installer.
  5. Install a version of Nodejs by using the following command.
    nvm install node-version
    Example : nvm install 14.3.3

6.To see the versions of Nodejs you have installed on your machine
nvm list

  1. To use/load a specific version of Nodejs
    nvm use node-version
    example :nvm use 14.3.3

Upvotes: 0

Daya
Daya

Reputation: 119

I'm using linux brew and bash and it asked me to add the following code to ~/.profile

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
  [ -s "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && \. "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
  [ -s "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && \. "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

But in my case, that did not work. Instead, adding it to ~/.bashrc worked.

Upvotes: -1

Khurshid Ansari
Khurshid Ansari

Reputation: 5095

  1. Open terminal
  2. if you have zsh terminal then type command 'open ~/.zshrc'
  3. Add end of file and save the following: source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

Upvotes: 10

chaqke
chaqke

Reputation: 1617

Over time, nvm (from homebrew) changed its post-installation instructions.

I was getting nvm_find_nvmrc not found on a new computer, until I replaced

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

with

[ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

which properly found the installation location.

Upvotes: 14

magentaqin
magentaqin

Reputation: 2139

Same problem encountered. You have to source shell file as well as change nvm's default version.

First, source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh.

Second, change nvm's default version.

nvm alias default 16.14.2

If you don't change nvm's default version, you will find the node version stay the same when you switch to another iTerm tab.

Upvotes: 24

Promise Preston
Promise Preston

Reputation: 29068

I faced a similar issue when installing nvm on a MacBook Pro.

I had installed nvm initially using brew:

brew install nvm

But when I run the command:

nvm --version

I get the error:

zsh nvm: command not found

Here's how I fixed it:

Installing nvm using brew is not enough to get it to work. You also need to do the following below;

  • Confirm that the source ~/.zshrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc file exists:

    zsh: ~/.zshrc

bash: ~/.bashrc

ksh: ~/.profile

    Else create it using:

    touch ~/.zshrc

touch ~/.bashrc

touch ~/.profile

  • Next, run either of the commands below:

    Note: You can check the referenced link below to get the updated commands.

    curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash

    OR

    wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash

    Note: Running either of the above commands downloads a script and runs it. The script clones the nvm repository to ~/.nvm, and attempts to add the source lines from the snippet below to the correct profile file (~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc)

    export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm.

You can check the referenced link below to get the updated script.

Reference: Installing and Updating NVM

Upvotes: 46

CyberMessiah
CyberMessiah

Reputation: 1268

After spending more than 3 hours testing some of the solutions above I came across an answer that was working for me. I am under Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and with a fresh install added the official command:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | 
bash

The problem was that my version of curl was obtained via snap. Removing it and re-installing it as suggested by this answer fixed the issue:

sudo snap remove curl
sudo apt install curl
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh 
| bash
nvm install node

Upvotes: 2

Capfer
Capfer

Reputation: 901

Assuming that you have installed nvm using brew (I am on a mac), I mean something like brew install nvm, all you need to do is:

 1. You should create NVM's working directory if it doesn't exist:

  mkdir ~/.nvm

 2. Add the following to ~/.zshrc or your desired shell configuration
    file:

      export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
      [ -s "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
      [ -s "/usr/local/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

Upvotes: 30

tn2000
tn2000

Reputation: 758

For Mac OS:

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Check if you have .profile file with this command:

ls -a ~/

  1. If you havnt this file just create one:

touch ~/.profile

  1. Add this command to .profile file :

source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

  1. Press Shift + Esc and type wq and press enter

Upvotes: 6

Alderete
Alderete

Reputation: 452

Something to be aware of, which tripped me up for an hour, is that nvm is "Implemented as a POSIX-compliant function", as it states at the top of the nvm.sh script file. This means there's no nvm file in your path, and thus you can't verify that nvm is present using the which command. Instead, use nvm --version, and verify that you get expected output.

malderete-ltm:~ malderete$ nvm --version
0.38.0
malderete-ltm:~ malderete$ which nvm
malderete-ltm:~ malderete$ which node
malderete-ltm:~ malderete$ nvm install --lts
Installing latest LTS version.
Downloading and installing node v14.17.5...
Downloading https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.17.5/node-v14.17.5-darwin-x64.tar.xz...
######################################################################### 100.0%
Computing checksum with shasum -a 256
Checksums matched!
Now using node v14.17.5 (npm v6.14.14)
Creating default alias: default -> lts/* (-> v14.17.5)
malderete-ltm:~ malderete$ nvm use --lts
Now using node v14.17.5 (npm v6.14.14)
malderete-ltm:~ malderete$ which node
/Users/malderete/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.5/bin/node

(As someone who is only semi-command line literate, I lean on the which command by muscle memory. Using nvm --version is in the instructions, but if you're an idiot like me, you might miss/skip over that part, and use which nvm by reflex, and think that nvm isn't installed.)

Upvotes: 1

basickarl
basickarl

Reputation: 40551

Quick answer

Figure out the following:

  1. Which shell is your terminal using, type in: echo $0 to find out (normally works)
  2. Which start-up file does that shell load when starting up (NOT login shell starting file, the normal shell starting file, there is a difference!)
  3. Add source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh to that file (assuming that file exists at that location, it is the default install location)
  4. Start a new terminal session
  5. Profit?

Example

As you can see it states zsh and not bash. enter image description here

To fix this I needed to add source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh to the ~/.zshrc file as when starting a new terminal my Deepin Terminal zsh reads ~/.zshrc and not bashs ~/.bashrc.

Why does this happen

This happens because when installing NVM it adds code to ~/.bashrc, as my terminal Deepin Terminal uses zsh and not bash it never reads ~/.bashrc and therefor never loads NVM.

In other words: this is NVMs fault.

More on zsh can be read on one of the answers here.

Quick answer for zsh users

curl raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | zsh

Upvotes: 118

itsTanany
itsTanany

Reputation: 457

I have the same problem and what saved my life is the sentence "you may have to add to more than one of your "~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.zshrc files". the following lines were in my .bashrc only, I added it to files ".bash_profile" and ".profile" and worked for me .

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

Upvotes: 21

Bekzat
Bekzat

Reputation: 180

Had the same problem, but this worked for me:

Since macOS 10.15, the default shell is zsh and nvm will look for .zshrc to update, none is installed by default. Create one with touch ~/.zshrc and run the install script again.

more info here: Troubleshooting on macOS

Upvotes: 2

Ben Aston
Ben Aston

Reputation: 55769

OSX 10.15.0 Catalina (released November 2019) changed the default shell to zsh.

The default shell was previously bash.

The installation command given on the nvm GitHub page needs to be tweaked to include "zsh" at the end.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | zsh

Note: you might need to ensure the .rc file for zsh is present beforehand:

touch ~/.zsrhrc

Upvotes: 23

Arjun Kesava
Arjun Kesava

Reputation: 790

For Mac OS:

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Run touch ~/.bash_profile
  3. Run vi ~/.bash_profile
  4. Type source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
  5. Press Shift + Esc and type wq and press enter
  6. Done.

Upvotes: 8

Alireza
Alireza

Reputation: 104870

This works for me:

  1. Before installing nvm, run this in terminal: touch ~/.bash_profile

  2. After, run this in terminal:
    curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.1/install.sh | bash

  3. Important... - DO NOT forget to Restart your terminal OR use command source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh (this will refresh the available commands in your system path).

  4. In the terminal, use command nvm --version and you should see the version

Upvotes: 269

Yunus ER
Yunus ER

Reputation: 2189

For MacOS;

Run on Terminal >

open ~/.bash_profile

Paste all of this=

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

Upvotes: 12

Mr.X
Mr.X

Reputation: 31335

After trying multiple steps, not sure what was the problem in my case but running this helped:

touch ~/.bash_profile
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | bash

Verified by nvm --version

nvm -v output

Upvotes: 0

travis
travis

Reputation: 8615

Check your .bash_profile, .zshrc, or .profile file. You most likely had a problem during the installation.

You should have the following at the end of one of those files.

[[ -s $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh ]] && . $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh  # This loads NVM

The . $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh is the same as source $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh

See: Sourcing a File

You can also check to see if you have a .nvm folder.

ls -a | grep .nvm

If you're missing that folder then the installation failed to run the git command. This could be due to being behind a proxy. Try running the following instead.

git clone http://github.com/creationix/nvm.git .nvm

Upvotes: 680

Vivekanand Panda
Vivekanand Panda

Reputation: 877

Use following codes

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash`
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh`
nvm install 0.8

Upvotes: 2

KARTHIKEYAN.A
KARTHIKEYAN.A

Reputation: 20118

First add following lines in ~/.bashrc file 

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

then open terminal and source the nvm.sh script

source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

Upvotes: 19

almeynman
almeynman

Reputation: 7428

For the issue was fixed when I moved

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

to the end of .zshrc

Upvotes: 5

S.Mishra
S.Mishra

Reputation: 3674

All answers to this questions are useful. Especially the answer given by Travis helped me. For Mac OS X users I would like to provide some steps which will help them to work with the fresh installation of Node Version Manager a.k.a. nvm.

Installing & using nvm on Mac OS X

Here are the steps for fresh installation of nvm and using it without any issue:

  • Install homebrew from here.

  • Using homebrew install nvm

    brew update brew install nvm

  • Create .nvm directory at ~/.nvm location.

    mkdir ~/.nvm

  • Now if you don't have .bash_profile file setup for OS X terminal then please create a .bash_profile at the root level:

    nano ~/.bash_profile

  • Paste below code in the .bash_profile and press CTRL + O and press enter to save .bash_profile file. Press CTRL + X to exit from editor:

    export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh

  • Now either quite (CMD + Q) the terminal or run below command to load .bash_profile settings:

    source ~/.bash_profile

  • Now run nvm ls command to get the list of all installed nodejs versions.

Upvotes: 61

Vishnu Dubey
Vishnu Dubey

Reputation: 151

I also faced the same problem recently and sourcing nvm bash script by using source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh resolved this issue.

Upvotes: 0

ArifMustafa
ArifMustafa

Reputation: 4965

In Windows 8.1 x64 same happened with me, and received the following message.

nvm install 8.3.0 bash: nvm: command not found windows

So, follow or verify below following steps-

first install coreybutler/nvm-windows from github.com. Currently available latest release 1.1.5 nvm-setup.zip, later extracted the setup nvm-setup.exe and install as following locations:

NVM_HOME    : C:\Users\Administrator\nvm
NVM_SYMLINK : C:\Program Files\nodejs

and meanwhile setup will manage the environment variable to Path as above said for you.

Now run Git Bash as Administrator and then.

$ nvm install 8.3.0 all

Downloading node.js version 8.3.0 (64-bit)...
Complete
Creating C:\Users\Administrator\nvm\temp

Downloading npm version 5.3.0... Complete
Installing npm v5.3.0...

Installation complete. If you want to use this version, type

nvm use 8.3.0

$ nvm use 8.3.0
Now using node v8.3.0 (64-bit)

here run your command without using prefix $, it is just shown here to determine it as a command line and now we will verify the nvm version.

$ nvm --version
Running version 1.1.5.

Usage:
-----------------------

if you have problem using nvm to install node, you can see this list of available nodejs releases here https://nodejs.org/download/release/ and choose the correct installer as per your requirement version equal or higher than v6.3.0 directly.

Upvotes: 2

vantony
vantony

Reputation: 513

Add the following lines to the files ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile :

# NVM changes
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"

and restart the terminal or do source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile. If you need command completion for nvm then also add the line:

[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"

Along with the above lines to ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile.

Upvotes: 5

JerryZhou
JerryZhou

Reputation: 5206

For my case, it because I use fish. if I not start fish, just type nvm will no error now.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions