npm is sometimes not installed when installing a node version

[nvm-sh]

npm is sometimes not installed when installing a node version

[merrells]

I find that happens when the build succeeds because it is already built. It returns fail, rather than building npm

'build' finished successfully (0.140s)
nvm: install v0.4.9 failed!

[creationix]

Right, it's a feature to share the already installed system npm if there is one per Isaac's suggestion. Is this a problem?

[merrells]

It causes nvm to bail out before installing npm, so an interrupted build means that you get node but not npm.

[kriswill]

Now using node v0.4.10
Installing npm...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 3927 100 3927 0 0 3223 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 34752
fetching: 1:http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.26.tgz

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
npm-install-55169.sh: line 92: cd: *: No such file or directory

It failed

not sure if this is related, but nvm is failing to install npm, even when it's not installed to /usr/local/bin or any other place. could this be a hosting problem for the npm download?

[kriswill]

Yup same issue with:
$ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

[jokeyrhyme]

I made a separate issue for explicitly controlling whether NPM should be installed or not:
#123

[ljharb]

This is related to using 0.4, which didn't include npm like 0.6 and later do. Node 0.4 is very old - please upgrade to 0.8 or 0.10 asap.