Install script not working on OSX

[mixinmax]

Did a barebones basic install using curl and the instructions in the README.

• The installer completed successfully, but I got a git message saying I was in detached HEAD state.
• which nvm returns nothing
• The installed ran because the environment variables are set and my .bashrc file was populated.

Any idea what I did wrong?

[ljharb]

This sounds correct. You're in a detached HEAD state because it's checked out the latest release tag, v0.17.3. which nvm is supposed to return nothing; it's a sourced shell function, not a binary.

Try nvm --version to see if it's set up correctly.

[mixinmax]

Ahhh, I definitely misunderstood how nvm worked. I though I was dealing with a binary. It works - thanks.

[offero]

How do we update?

[ljharb]

@offero Run the curl command in the readme on https://github.com/creationix/nvm/tree/v0.23.0 : curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.23.0/install.sh | bash

[offero]

When I do that, it exits with error code 1 without a reason:

(1)$ nvm --version
0.17.2
$ ./install.sh
=> nvm is already installed in /Users/offero/.nvm, trying to update
=>
(1)$ nvm --version
0.17.2

[ljharb]

@offero Do you have git installed? An exit code of 1 either comes from a git fetch failing, or from a curl/wget command failing, but in both cases it should output an error.

You can also try downloading the install script, and running it with METHOD=git . install.sh or METHOD=script . install.sh.

[offero]

~/.nvm ()
$ git status
HEAD detached at v0.17.3
nothing to commit, working directory clean

[offero]

Oh the METHOD=git . install.sh version seemed to work! Why is that?

[ljharb]

@offero what happens if you do echo $METHOD?

[offero]

Nothing. That environment variable does not seem to be set.

[ljharb]

@offero I'm glad it works when you specify the method - presumably type git works?