To install or update nvm, you can use the install script using cURL: This might cause version mismatches, as other users will be using /usr/local/lib/node_modules/* VS your user account using ~/.nvm/versions/node/vX.X.X/lib/node_modules/* 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. Note: We still have some problems with FreeBSD, because there is no pre-built binary from official for FreeBSD, and building from source may need patches, see the issue ticket: plugin-nvm plugin for Oh My Fish, which makes nvm and its completions available in fish shell.fin is a pure fish node version manager for fish shell.fast-nvm-fish only works with version numbers (not aliases) but doesn't significantly slow your shell startup.bass allows 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). Two alternatives exist, which are neither supported nor developed by us: Note: nvm does not support Windows (see #284). For OS X, Xcode will work, for Ubuntu, the build-essential and libssl-dev packages work. First you'll need to make sure your system has a c++ compiler.

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