Fixes
- fix unassigned variable (#1665, #1664)
- Fix for $path used by zsh (#1669)
- `set -u`: ensure `NVM_USE_OUTPUT` is always set (#1671)
- `install.sh`: Fix a bug that block that installation of node in install.sh (#1676)
- `nvm install-latest-npm`: fix node 4-4.6
Documentation
- Make `nvm cache clear` message less ambiguous (#1644)
- Added missing piece (#1658)
If installation is prompted to be successful, yet `which nvm` command returns `not found` then you might need to restart your terminal instance. Try opening a new tab/window in your terminal and retry.
- added git as the last method before full manual install.
- added the directory on `git clone` command
- added the `git checkout v0.33.1` as the -v gets updated automatically
Enable `--compressed` parameter on curl to automatically enable
compression on request content by sending coressponding header, if the
server side supports compression format like deflate or gzip, curl will
also decompress the content automatically, so there is no additional
works need to done manually on client side, but just enjoy the benifits
of bandwidth and time saving!
Take https://nodejs.org/dist/index.tab as an example which is last
modified on Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:41:05 GMT, the compressed transmission
only take 4829 bytes howevet the not compressed on taks 48000 bytes,
which is about 10 times larger!
This feature can be traced back to Sep 3 2002, in curl commit:
- 64bbe9dfaf
So should be supported on various versions widely.
1. If we are not going to install nodejs or io.js from source, we may
not need to have c++ compiler or libssl-dev package
2. the `build-essential` and `libssl-dev` packages should work on all
the Debian and Ubuntu based GNU/Linux distros
3. Remove useless blank lines
Christoph Krautz