You might need to restart your terminal instance or run.

If you are facing issues installing node using nvm, you may want to update to v16 or later. For earlier versions, there were only darwin_圆4 packages available but no darwin_arm64.

For Macs with the M1 chip, node started providing arm64Īrch darwin packages since v16.0.0.

If you have issues with homebrew-installed nvm, please brew uninstall it, and install it using the instructions below, before filing an issue.

Homebrew installation is not supported.

Create one with touch ~/.zshrc and run the install script again (already handled with step 4) zshrc to update, none is installed by default.

Since macOS 10.15, the default shell is zsh and nvm will look for.

validate Node installation with node -v.

first version installed becomes default, to update default in the future run nvm alias default.

Can also specify a certain version or nvm install node for latest version.

This installs the latest long-term support version of Node, recommended for most users ( ).

NVM is recommended to navigate between versions and to avoid permission issues when installing Node directly on Mac.

Confirm you are using zsh with echo $SHELL, should output /bin/zsh.

If you are using Bash or have Bash installed, your setup will be different. As of MacOS 10.15, ZSH is the default over Bash.

Will prompt installation if not already installed.

Installs automatically with Xcode CLT, but also important to validate installation was successful.

Should see /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git.

Run ls /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git.

Should see /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools.

validate full package installed via iTerm2 with xcode-select -p.

This should be installed already via Step 1, but it's important to validate the entire package was installed. Terminal alternative for Mac, recommended to me and I’ve used it for years.

Git for mac installer