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Due to the way nvm is designed, you have to source it before you can use it:

source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh

You will probably want that in your shell startup file, e.g.:

echo 'source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

See nvm.install or the upstream README for more details.

Due to the way nvm is designed, you have to source it before you can use it:

source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh

You will probably want that in your shell startup file, e.g.:

echo 'source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

See nvm.install or the upstream README for more details.

How do I use nvm these days? In the past, this package exposed nvm command I could freely use.

@FranklinYu The reason I kept them separate is because install-nvm-exec feel a little more "controversial" to me. I can imagine some people explicitly not wanting install-nvm-exec to run as it modifies your home directory... (not much mind you - it just creates ~/.nvm and puts some symlinks there)

But you're right that if users want to avoid install-nvm-exec they would also be avoiding init-nvm.sh as well.... so maybe keeping them separate is silly.

But the need to do that really highlights the way in which nvm was not designed to be packaged via a system package manager like pacman. The "official" way to install it is via their install.sh script which makes way more drastic changes to your home directory! (edits ~/.bashrc etc.)

Do you think it makes sense to merge install-nvm-exec into init-nvm.sh? Both scripts are very short.

Thanks for the heads-up @donsmith - I've updated the url.

@tomwadley, just a heads-up for your next update. The nvm repo has moved to https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm. Obviously this has not broken this package - just letting you know.

I was confused about it until I went back in the commits and verified that the same repo used to belong to Tim (creationx) and has been removed from its old location.

Thanks for the tip @jamespharvey20. I wasn't aware of SRCDEST. Fixed.

Downloaded source filenames must be unique, for those who set SRCDEST in /etc/makepkg.conf. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#source

Please add something like this to the beginning of source:

source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https...

@joshsteele21 You shouldn't have to change any permissions or use sudo. And you're sourcing (as opposed to executing) init-nvm.sh right? Have you previously tried to install nvm the "official" way from their readme? There could be some sort of conflict going on there.

Installation and running the init-nvm.sh script works fine, but running nvm install node does not work because of permission denied errors. Using sudo does not recognize the nvm command (sudo: nvm: command not found)

EDIT: Do I need to manually change the permissions on /usr/share/nvm ?