NVM & Node.js - Recommended install for all users

Question

is there a recommended install for nvm so all users can use it? i cannot find anything on the web regarding this.

this is what i did

• installed nvm in a

Answer 1

There is also this fork of nvm designed for global usage: https://github.com/xtuple/nvm

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xtuple/nvm/master/install.sh | sudo bash

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/nvm

nvm install 8

Update : I tried various ways to use xtuple's nvm and also n to manage a global node environment and I always ran into edge cases where there were issues. In the end what worked best for me was to download a few versions of node from their website and uncompress them to /usr/local. Then update my path with the version I want. e.g.

export PATH=/usr/local/node-v7.10.1-linux-x64/bin:$PATH

Note: You will probably have to chmod 777 the node path or dedicate one user to mange it.