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Instructions for students beginning General Assembly's WDI program in Boston
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nvm command not found #236

Closed payne-chris-r closed 7 years ago

payne-chris-r commented 7 years ago

If devs are getting nvm: command not found or something along those lines it's likely because they didn't copy pasta the piece before it, and instead ran it in their terminal...

danman01 commented 7 years ago

Yea, they forgot / missed the instruction to set up their nvm executable or path from a previous copy / paste section. In the installfest text, there are many instances of a line of text instruction saying:

type this in the command line atom ~/.bashrc and then paste the following:

some code to paste here

And it seemed more often than not that instruction to open up .bashrc in atom was skipped by developers, and instead some code to paste here was just put in the terminal, which does nothing.

Maybe we could look into the various places the developers will be entering text, and have some sort of color / symbol that refers to the specific instruction, like:

:penguin: this is entered on the command line

:green_book: this is entered within atom / text editor

And some more symbols to highlight important steps:

:floppy_disk: don't forget to save

:volcano: completely close out and reopen your shell

scottyscripts commented 7 years ago

moved to and closed on GHE https://git.generalassemb.ly/ga-wdi-boston/orientation/issues/236