"N/A: version "stable" is not yet installed"

[bookercodes]

I am running nvm with Zsh and Oh My Zsh on Ubuntu.

Steps to reproduce

1. After installing nvm, run:

   nvm install stable
   nvm alias default stable
   nvm use stable
   

2. nvm should and, in my case, does append the following to the bottom of your ~/.zshrc:

   export NVM_DIR="/home/booker/.nvm"
   [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm

3. Restart the terminal.

What happens
When the terminal reloads, I see this error:

N/A: version "stable" is not yet installed

Note: I can execute nvm use stable and everything works fine - node becomes available and all that.

What I expect to happen

I would expect no error and that the node command be available. Instead when I run node I see the following error:

zsh: command not found: node

Other

Here is my complete ~/.zshrc:

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH=/home/booker/.oh-my-zsh

# if [ "$TMUX" = "" ]; then tmux; fi

alias cat='colorize' 

# Set name of the theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

# Uncomment the following line to use case-sensitive completion.
# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to use hyphen-insensitive completion. Case
# sensitive completion must be off. _ and - will be interchangeable.
# HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to change how often to auto-update (in days).
# export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=13

# Uncomment the following line to disable colors in ls.
# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Uncomment the following line to disable auto-setting terminal title.
# DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
# ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"

# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
# COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to disable marking untracked files
# under VCS as dirty. This makes repository status check for large repositories
# much, much faster.
# DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="true"

# Uncomment the following line if you want to change the command execution time
# stamp shown in the history command output.
# The optional three formats: "mm/dd/yyyy"|"dd.mm.yyyy"|"yyyy-mm-dd"
# HIST_STAMPS="mm/dd/yyyy"

# Would you like to use another custom folder than $ZSH/custom?
# ZSH_CUSTOM=/path/to/new-custom-folder

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
plugins=(git colorize)

# User configuration

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"
# export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH"

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# You may need to manually set your language environment
# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# Preferred editor for local and remote sessions
# if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
#   export EDITOR='vim'
# else
#   export EDITOR='mvim'
# fi

# Compilation flags
# export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"

# ssh
# export SSH_KEY_PATH="~/.ssh/dsa_id"

# Set personal aliases, overriding those provided by oh-my-zsh libs,
# plugins, and themes. Aliases can be placed here, though oh-my-zsh
# users are encouraged to define aliases within the ZSH_CUSTOM folder.
# For a full list of active aliases, run `alias`.
#
# Example aliases
# alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc"
# alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"

export NVM_DIR="/home/booker/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm

I only installed Ubuntu this morning so the system is pretty much clean.

[ljharb]

Thanks for the report - omz tends to set tons of zsh options by default that I have to manually override in each instance where it causes problems :-(

Also, can you try commenting out the cat alias, and see if that helps?

[bookercodes]

@jnlin Thank you for your prompt response. Bizarrely, commenting out the cat alias works. I didn't even try because it seemed so unlikely to be having an impact but now I think about it, it is the only thing that could be causing problems.

P.S. Awesome display pic 🚀

[bookercodes]

Moving the cat alias to the bottom of the file also fixes problem.

[ljharb]

I'm going to reopen this - if the cat alias causes problems on the auto-use, it will likely still be broken for you when you manually nvm use foo (can you confirm?)

Even though in general, overriding shell builtins with aliases is a very bad idea, tons of people do it, so I still try to make nvm robust against it.

[bookercodes]

I think I'll rename the alias to ccat then.

I can write nvm use default and node works fine, if that is what you mean?

[ljharb]

Thanks, I'll have to dig a bit to find which cat is causing the problem, but I should be able to handle it since it's not omz specific.

[bookercodes]

This issue no longer effects me but if you need anything else from me, please let me know.