Failed install

[surfeatsleep]

It's a bit of a long read (most of it is terminal input/output though), so please stick with me.

Summary

I ran curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash multiple times and still keep getting command not found

Long version

I tried installing nvm by opening the terminal and running

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash

but it complained with:

Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.

I tried to exit and reopen terminal and got:

-bash: nvm: command not found

Seemed expected, so I went and manually agreed to XCode terms.

Than I reopened the terminal and tried running the following command again

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash

this time it complained with the following:

=> Profile not found. Tried  (as defined in $PROFILE), ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, and ~/.profile.
=> Create one of them and run this script again
=> Create it (touch ) and run this script again
   OR
=> Append the following lines to the correct file yourself:

export NVM_DIR=“/Users/Surfeatsleep/.nvm”
[ -s “$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh” ] && . “$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh”  # This loads nvm

Realising I didn't have a .bash_profile, I created within /Users/Surfeatsleep/ and pasted

export NVM_DIR=“/Users/Surfeatsleep/.nvm”
[ -s “$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh” ] && . “$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh”  # This loads nvm 

reopened the terminal again and got

-bash: nvm: command not found

So, again I typed

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash

It said some stuff already exists and I should close and reopen terminal, so I did.
I tried running nvm again, but again I got

-bash: nvm: command not found

I checked to see if nvm is installed

cd .nvm

ls

CONTRIBUTING.md Makefile    bash_completion nvm-exec    package.json
LICENSE.md  README.markdown install.sh  nvm.sh      test

Am I missing something? Why isn't nvm running? Did I mess up by running
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash multiple times?
Since I am not all that proficient with the terminal I would appreciate all the help I can get

---

P.S.: I am running OS X ver. - 10.11.1

[surfeatsleep]

Also note, that if I use: . $NVM_DIR/nvm.sh (as suggested #889) and than running nvm ls it returns:

            N/A
node -> stable (-> N/A) (default)
iojs -> N/A (default)

I'm guessing this means nvm is installed (and no node os iojs are which is what I would expect at the moment).

Can someone please:

• confirm I didn't mess anything up by calling curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash several times (as described above)
• tell me how to make nvm work without entering . $NVM_DIR/nvm.sh every time I open the terminal

[ljharb]

@surfeatsleep that first message you got is a Mac thing. Run sudo make or something on the command line to agree to the terms and conditions, and then your command line tools will work.

[ljharb]

I can definitely confirm that calling the install script multiple times will not mess anything up.

If, after fixing your command line tools, and rerunning the install script, it's still not working - check for ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc - you may need to follow the last part of the manual instructions here until #904 is resolved.

[surfeatsleep]

Thanks for the info.

I've created all three, .bashrc, .bash_profile and .profile and pasted the following:

export NVM_DIR=“/Users/Surfeatsleep/.nvm”
[ -s “$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh” ] && . “$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh”  # This loads nvm 

still it wouldn't work.

I tried instead pasting:

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

into .bashrc, .bash_profile and .profile and now it works!
(turns out I need this to be in .bash_profile only)

The solution for my problem seems to have been using the $HOME variable instead of /Users/Surfeatsleep <--- not sure why this was an issue.

Thanks for your input!

P.S.: I know it's somewhat off-topic, but should I remove .bashrc and .profile or just leave them empty?

[ljharb]

hmm, perhaps the capitalization. do you have any symlinks anywhere, or is your $HOME directory mounted on a different drive?

Might as well remove them if they're empty but it shouldn't matter either way.

[surfeatsleep]

I am not aware of any symlinks and it's on the same drive.
Also if I echo $HOME I get /Users/Surfeatsleep, so not sure why it doesn't work with the literal path but does with the$HOME variable.

[ljharb]

@surfeatsleep what about whoami?

[bugthunk]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh installed stuff in the directory '~' in my home directory. Check this. It works for me now, don't know what changed. I certainly did not change a thing.

[surfeatsleep]

@ljharb
sorry, not sure why I had Surfeatsleep in uppercase, it's actually in lowecase (guess it could have been some odd autocomplete, since I typed it in the first time and than repasted the incorrect verision all over this topic). Again, sorry for the confusion, the actual directory is in fact /Users/surfeatsleep.

I tried checking echo $HOME (returns /Users/surfeatsleep) and whoami (returns surfeatsleep).

Nonetheless, if I edit the .bash_profile to be:

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

it doesn't not work, however the following does:

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

@bugthunk
The installation directory seems to be in the right folder: /Users/surfeatsleep/.nvm
If it helps you, ~/ is a shortcut for the home folder of a user in OS X

Long story short
The solution (for me at least) seems to be to just stick to using $HOME instead of the literal path.

[bugthunk]

If it helps you, ~/ is a shortcut for the home folder of a user in OS X

Thanks, I know. That was my point, although perhaps I wasn't too clear about this :)

[ljharb]

@bugthunk That's also very odd. Do you have any shell options set in your bashrc or bash_profile?

@surfeatsleep both when it works and doesn't work, what does echo $NVM_DIR on the command line print out?

[surfeatsleep]

@ljharb
Sorry to disappoint, but it seems I can no longer replicate the issue.

[simonh1000]

I'm having a related issue. I have nvm in my path but neither node not npm are there. I've tried nvm use 5.0 but that does no survive a restart of terminal

[surfeatsleep]

@simonh1000 I'm no expert at nvm, but perhaps this can help:
#658 (comment)

[ljharb]

@surfeatsleep thanks, I'll close this then

[simonh1000]

@surfeatsleep - Genius - Thanks

[MattFoley]

This might need to be re-opened, or perhaps another issue added. This curl command no longer works in Mac OSX Sierra on my 2016 Macbook Pro (Touch Bar). This only works if you accept the Xcode license agreement manually by opening Xcode prior to running this script.

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

Here's the output if you haven't yet accepted the Xcode license agreement:

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 10250  100 10250    0     0  56285      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 56318
=> Downloading nvm from git to '/Users/tjfallon/.nvm'
=> 

Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.


Failed to clone nvm repo. Please report this!

Once you do, it's fine again.

[ljharb]

@MattFoley this has been true for multiple versions of Mac OS - lots of terminal commands won't work until you've accepted the Xcode license agreement first. That's just sadly one of the things any developer must know the first time they use a new Mac.

Since the output tells you exactly what to do, there's not really anything nvm can or should do to fix it.

[MattFoley]

Feel free to close, just posting because the console output told me to report it :)