Brew install nvm. nvm: command not found

Question

After installing nvm with brew, and running nvm, it says nvm: command not found

How can I get the command to execute?

Answer 1

There are two steps to installing nvm with brew.

First use brew to install the application:

brew install nvm

Then take a look at the brew info "caveats" section, to see what else you have to do:

brew info nvm

You might see something like (this can change!):

You should create NVM's working directory if it doesn't exist:    mkdir ~/.nvm  Add the following to ~/.bash_profile or your desired shell configuration file:    export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"   . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" 

If you do not have a ~/.bash_profile file, then you can simply create one.

Make sure to restart your terminal before trying to run the nvm command again.

Answer 2

I followed @user3207874's answer, but it still wasn't working for me. I had to run this command after those steps:

source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh