Error: Global NVM install error "Please report this!"

[guylepage3]

I was attempting a global NVM install on macOS 10.13.4 and received the following error message.

$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | NVM_DIR=/usr/local/nvm bash
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 12540  100 12540    0     0  32541      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 32571
=> Downloading nvm from git to '/usr/local/nvm'
=> mkdir: /usr/local/nvm: Permission denied
ls: /usr/local/nvm: No such file or directory
fatal: could not create work tree dir '/usr/local/nvm': Permission denied
Failed to clone nvm repo. Please report this!

[ljharb]

nvm is intended to be installed per-user, not globally.

Specifically here, the issue is that you likely need sudo to be able to modify /usr/local

[guylepage3]

Hm. that's very odd considering it's on the README.md of this repository.

Let me know if you'd like me to do a pull request to move this from the README.md.

[ljharb]

You’re right; that’s an unfortunate example path.

Interestingly, i removed this in 6d2c9a9 in December 2015; #549 seems to have accidentally reintroduced it in June 2016.

A PR to reintroduce the change from 6d2c9a9 would be very appreciated!