How to install Node Version Manager

To conveniently manage different versions of Nodejs on our Ubuntu distribution, we'll use Node Version Manager or nvm.

We'll proceed to install it to be able to fetch the code we'll use to install nvm.

sudo apt install curl

We run the following command that installs the necessary code to run nvm and enables it in our terminal's bashrc.

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash

Warning

The version in the command on this site may be outdated (0.39.1). Check the command in the project repository to get the most up-to-date version.

We run the following commands to verify that nvm was installed correctly.

source ~/.bashrc

command -v nvm

If the installation was successful, we should see the following in the console.

nvm

We proceed to install the long-term support (LTS) version of node on our Ubuntu distribution.

nvm install --lts

Once the installation is complete, we can verify the installed version of node with the following command.

node -v

And we'll get a result like this.

v16.15.1

How to install Node Version Manager ​