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Can't install on a clean macOS without git installed #1782

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PeterDaveHello opened this issue Apr 10, 2018 · 7 comments · Fixed by #1787
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Can't install on a clean macOS without git installed #1782

PeterDaveHello opened this issue Apr 10, 2018 · 7 comments · Fixed by #1787
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installing nvm Problems installing nvm itself OS: Mac OS

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@PeterDaveHello
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Install nvm on a clean macOS will fail as below:

$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bash
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 12540  100 12540    0     0  43532      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 43693
=> Downloading nvm from git to '/Users/peter/.nvm'
=> xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools.
Failed to clone nvm repo. Please report this!

It'll also open a dialog to ask about installing Xcode with command line tools or not:
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The problem is because the path /usr/bin/git is actually the built-in Xcode, so nvm can find git successfully and assume git is installed and working.

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ljharb commented Apr 10, 2018

I'm not sure how this can be addressed; typically the first thing you always have to do (manually) when setting up a new Mac is install the Xcode command line tools.

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I haven't found a method to suppress the GUI dialog asking to install Xcode command line tools, otherwise we can at least escape from that failure without providing useful info :(

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ljharb commented Apr 10, 2018

I think that installing those prior to doing anything else - including installing nvm - is just something Mac devs need to know how to do.

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Maybe I can send a PR to just mention that README.md?

@ljharb ljharb changed the title Can't install on a clean macOS without git installded Can't install on a clean macOS without git installed Apr 12, 2018
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ljharb commented Apr 12, 2018

I suppose, but i still think it’s something that a Mac dev just needs to know, and I’m not sure why they’d be learning it at the point of installing nvm.

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I'll like to mention that also because we can't properly handle it, we don't know if anyone would install nvm first ;)

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ljharb commented Apr 12, 2018

i suppose, sure

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