nvm installing node outside of .nvm dir about nvm

[mdgrech]

Man I had the same happen to me. The src folder and my versions of node are all showing up in my home folder rather than under ~/.nvm what gives?

[sheldonkwok]

Not to be a necromancer but has anyone figured out why this is happening?

@sheldonkwok I don't know much about bash at the moment so I'm not sure why this happens, but the $NVM_DIR variable in ~/.nvm/nvm.sh is always set to the home directory, so when it gets to the [ ! -d "$NVM_DIR" ] check it just skips over it.

I fixed it simply by removing the [ ! -d "$NVM_DIR" ] check on line 18 of the nvm.sh file.

[nicholascloud]

I forced NVM_DIR to be correct in my .bash_profile before I source NVM:

# nvm
NVM_DIR=~/.nvm; export NVM_DIR
. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
[[ -r $NVM_DIR/bash_completion ]] && . $NVM_DIR/bash_completion

[davidbarton]

@nicholascloud works for me, thanks a lot.

[simov]

I removed the check on line 18 like @jakelucas pointed out, it's not the best solution but it worked for me.

[juriejan]

I also had the same problem, but it's the first time in a year of using NVM that I've encountered it.

It seems that for some reason NVM_DIR was defined as my home directory, but after restarting it was gone. I couldn't determine any obvious reason for it being set.

I've not been able to replicate the issue. Anyone have an idea of how I could replicate it?

[dolivier]

I also got this issue. I presumed that BASH_SOURCE[0] didn't evaluate correctly within the context of the login.
This is a duplicate of #268 (BASH_SOURCE makes no sense to dash, which is the shell that reads ~/.profile, and which sources nvm.sh)

[ljharb]

Is this still a problem with v0.5.1 of nvm?

[ljharb]

Please reopen if this is still an issue in the latest tagged release (currently v0.10.0)