how set up nvm with oh-my-zsh to load globally installed bower, yo , grunt or jshint

[programming-kid]

First of all my apologizes , i know this question might have been asked so many times in here and all over INTERNET, which has caused much more confusion to this problem, i tried many solutions but none worked so finally, I created this issue, which may also serve as wiki for future users.

Uptil today i used node v0.10.26 which was released over an year ago, but today i decide to upgrade my node version.

I had previously installed node from source which is why i didn't update it for so long, so this time i decided to use nvm , it was super easy to use nvm 👍

But quickly after installing i noticed one problem i couldn't execute my globally installed packages like yo or bower, i google alot and came up with so many useless solutions , i knew it has something to do with .bashrc or .profile or .zshrc but couldn't fix it i have appended following to all above files

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

source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

so i finally i tried one trick
first i opened bash from terminal and i again opend zsh from terminal which solved my problem only temporarily for that session , i had to do thins whenever i opened new session

This was fine as i can live with this for sometime but when i opened sublime3 i couldn't load jslint or jshint, which is when i started digging more to fix this problem because i cannot live without those two plug-in

pls help me fix this problem
thanks

[ljharb]

Your original globally installed packages must be reinstalled in the nvm node version you have installed.

What you probably want to do is to run nvm reinstall-packages system, or manually npm install -g whichever one you want.

[programming-kid]

yes i did that i completely removed old node_modules and reinstall them using nvm npm

[ljharb]

great, let me know if you still have any issues

[programming-kid]

what i meant was i already did that but still it dosen't work

[ljharb]

By default, nvm won't use any particular version. Try nvm alias default stable, and then reopen your shell?

[programming-kid]

what i done till now is

• removed old node and all node_modules
• install nvm
• nvm install v0.10.36
• nvm alias default 0.10.32
• npm install -g yo bower grunt-cli
• added source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh to .zshrc

everything is fine till here
node -v ---> v 0.10.36
npm -v ---> 1.4.28

i get node and npm when i open new session but i dont get bower or yo or grunt

[ljharb]

ok so in that new session, what's which node, which npm, npm root -g, and nvm current report?

[programming-kid]

▶ which node
/home/kid/.nvm/v0.10.36/bin/node

~
▶ which npm
/home/kid/.nvm/v0.10.36/bin/npm

~
▶ npm root -g
/home/kid/local/lib/node_modules

~
▶ nvm current
v0.10.36

[ljharb]

Ah, npm root -g is reporting the wrong thing. Perhaps this is #606, and you have a prefix specified in ~/.npmrc?

[programming-kid]

yes it says
prefix = /home/kid/local

[ljharb]

That's the problem. Remove that line until #606 is resolved, and reinstall your global modules :-)

Or, put /home/kid/local in your PATH, but nvm won't be happy about that.

[programming-kid]

i will try again after removing that line from ~/.npmrc and get back to you

[programming-kid]

hey it worked thanks, you are awesome 👍

[ljharb]

np, thanks for working through it.

[nucleardreamer]

Thank you guys for this thread, I thought I was going crazy but this helped!

[mhicauber]

Awesome - same issue here, due to previous npm install withou nvm I guess. Thanks a lot.

[anthonybrown]

what to do if you can't run any commands?
I just installed some versions of node with nvm and got an error about permissions
so I ran what was suggested compaudit | xargs chmod g-w,o-w
now when I quit iterm and restart, it won't load and I can't do anything except quit and open new tabs?
Nothing like this has ever happened before.

[ljharb]

@anthonybrown what suggested "compaudit"; i've never heard of that?