NVM is not working on Jenkins execute shell

Question

I am trying to install and use nvm from the Jenkins execute shell script on Ubuntu server but I am getting this error:

16:00:21 /tmp/hudson5983664925305072739.sh: line 8: nvm: command not found

This is what I have tried those so far but no success:

#!/bin/bash

touch ~/.profile && source ~/.profile;
nvm current || echo "SSH NVM is being installed" &&  touch ~/.profile && curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh && bash install_nvm.sh && source ~/.profile

echo "checking nvm"
bash ~/.nvm/nvm.sh;
nvm --version || exit 1;

Jenkins execute shell screenshot:

Answer 1

Adding those solves the issue:

. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
. ~/.profile
. ~/.bashrc

Answer 2

You need to remember that Jenkins is running commands in non-interactive shell so PATH is different from what a normal user has. One way to solve this problem is to invoke nvm with it absolute path.

Answer 3

After struggling to get the suggestions above to work, I tried the NodeJS Jenkins plugin and it worked like a charm.

https://plugins.jenkins.io/nodejs/