Node Version Manager install - nvm command not found

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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  Any help would be appreciated  Thanks

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If you are using OS X  you might have to create your  bash profile file before running the installation command  That did it for me   Create the profile file  touch    bash profile   Re-run the install and you ll see a relevant line in the output this time         Appending source string to  Users  username   bash profile   Reload your profile  or close re-open the Terminal window          bash profile

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I have the same problem and what saved my life is the sentence  quot you may have to add to more than one of  your  quot    bashrc     profile  or    zshrc files quot   the following lines were in my  bashrc only  I added it to files  quot  bash profile quot  and  quot  profile quot  and worked for me   export NVM DIR  quot  HOME  nvm quot    -s  quot  NVM DIR nvm sh quot     amp  amp      quot  NVM DIR nvm sh quot     This loads nvm   -s  quot  NVM DIR bash completion quot     amp  amp      quot  NVM DIR bash completion quot     This loads nvm bash completion

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This works for me    Before installing nvm  run this in terminal  touch    bash profile After  run this in terminal  curl -o- https   raw githubusercontent com creationix nvm v0 33 1 install sh   bash 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   In the terminal  use command nvm --version and you should see the version

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In macOS  i had to source it using source    nvm nvm sh command to fix this problem   After that  add these lines   export NVM DIR   HOME  nvm    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp      NVM DIR nvm sh    This loads nvm   onto    bash profile so that nvm will be sourced automatically upon login

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For Mac OS    Open Terminal Run touch    bash profile Run vi    bash profile Type source    nvm nvm sh Press Shift   Esc and type wq and press enter Done

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Quick answer  Figure out the following    Which shell is your terminal using  type in  echo  0 to find out  normally works  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   Add source    nvm nvm sh to that file  assuming that file exists at that location  it is the default install location  Start a new terminal session Profit    Example  As you can see it states zsh and not bash    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

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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

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Add the following lines to the files    bashrc and    bash profile      NVM changes export NVM DIR   HOME  nvm    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp       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     amp  amp       NVM DIR bash completion    Along with the above lines to    bashrc and    bash profile

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The nvm install script by default adds initialization code to your  HOME  profile  which is only loaded by a login shell  in a desktop environment you may never see a login shell      The nvm command in your login shell is not propagated to sub-shells  like console windows and IDE terminals after you log in    This snippet in your  HOME  bashrc will only load nvm if it is an interactive shell and has not been loaded already    if nvm dir is not set and the standard nvm directory exists if   -z   NVM DIR  -a -d   HOME  nvm      then   set nvm dir   export NVM DIR   HOME  nvm  fi    if nvm dir is set and this shell is interactive if   -d   NVM DIR  -a -n   PS1      then     if nvm command is not defined   if   type -t nvm  gt  dev null   then       set it     source   NVM DIR nvm sh    fi fi   Putting this in your  HOME  bashrc file will fix the missing nvm problem in interactive bash shells  even from a gui  and even if nvm is installed in a non-standard location

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

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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  amp  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

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

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source    nvm nvm sh Add this line to    bashrc     profile  or    zshrc

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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     amp  amp     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

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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

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Not directly connected to the question  but there is a similar problem that may happen  take a look at this question  Can  39 t execute nvm from new bash    Here s my answer on that post  just for the reference   If you are running from a new bash instance  and you HAVE the initialization code at your    bashrc     bash profile  etc  then you need to check this initialization file for conditionals   On Ubuntu 14  there is a   case  - in      i               return   esac   At line 6  that will halt it s execution if bash is not being ran with the  -i   interactive  flag  So you would need to run   bash -i   Also  at the end of the file  there is a    -z   PS1     amp  amp  return   That will halt it s execution if not being ran with  PS1 set  like on a remote ssh session    If you do not wish to add any env vars or flags  you will need to remove those conditionals from your initialization file   Hope that s helpful

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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

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For MacOS   Run on Terminal    open    bash profile   Paste all of this   export NVM DIR   HOME  nvm    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp      NVM DIR nvm sh    This loads nvm

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On Debian  as well as adding the below lines to my  bash profile as one of the above answers said  I also had to open up my terminal preferences  Edit -  Profile Preferences -  Command  and enable  Run command as a login shell  to get it to work   export NVM DIR   HOME  nvm    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp      NVM DIR nvm sh    This loads nvm   Edit  For those on Mac be aware that macOS doesn t read  bashrc on Terminal start  so using  bash profile is preferable  See Here

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For the issue was fixed when I moved  export NVM DIR   HOME  nvm    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp       NVM DIR nvm sh     This loads nvm   -s   NVM DIR bash completion     amp  amp       NVM DIR bash completion     This loads nvm bash completion   to the end of  zshrc

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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

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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

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For me this worked  First check that the file  bashrc has following line    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp      NVM DIR nvm sh     This loads nvm  Now bashrc is loaded for each terminal session  Thus restart the terminal so that it is loaded again and you should be good to go

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First add following lines in    bashrc file   export NVM DIR   HOME  nvm    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp       NVM DIR nvm sh     This loads nvm   -s   NVM DIR bash completion     amp  amp       NVM DIR bash completion     This loads nvm bash completion   then open terminal and source the nvm sh script  source    nvm nvm sh

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I had fixed this problem    touch    bash profile open     bash profile pasteexport NVM DIR   HOME  nvm    -s   NVM DIR nvm sh     amp  amp       NVM DIR nvm sh     This loads nvm   -s   NVM DIR bash completion     amp  amp       NVM DIR bash completion     This loads nvm bash completion

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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

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