Node Version Manager install - nvm command not found

Question

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/instal         


        

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

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.