Installing Net.Create

1. Choose your installation location
   • Digital Ocean: ~$/5 month. Offers better collaborative access, or a platform for folks without a MacOS machine
   • MacOS: Free. Offers better control of private data or to support mostly-individual network data entry.

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• Problems with your “shell”
  • Step 4
  • Step 6
  • Step 8

Problems with your “shell”

If you are working on a step after instructions that reference *the shell**–.zshrc,.bashrc,.bash_profile–you may see errors like nvm not found.

Those errors aren’t a response to the command in the current step, but to environment settings in the previous step that are making it difficult for your computer to find the necessary programs begin referenced in the current step.

There are a few points along the way where these issues crop up.

Step 4

Step 4

**Step 4 includes the commands touch .zshrc and touch .bash_profile. **

• If you are running MacOS earlier than Catalina or Digital Ocean, use: touch .bash_profile and touch .bashrc
• If you are running MacOS Catalina or later, use: touch .zshrc

Step 6

Step 6 includes a command that starts with curl -o-

First check the NVM install page to make sure you are using the most recent version.

Then, look for what programmers call a pipe, the vertical line after “install.sh” that looks like this: | . Pipes separate the main part of a command in the command line from an extension of that command that might have some variances from system to system. Adjust what comes after it based on your MacOS.

• If you are running MacOS earlier than Catalina or Digital Ocean, use:
  • curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash
• If you are running MacOS Catalina or later, use:
  • curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | zsh
• Remember that spaces also act as separators in the command line. You’ll need a space before and after the pipe.

Step 8

Step 8 includes the command nvm install 10.22

If step 8 fails, you may need to check your ``/User/yourname/ folder for a file called .zshrc or .bash_profile` and then edit its contents.

• If you are running MacOS earlier than Catalina or Digital Ocean, use: .bash_profile
• If you are running MacOS Catalina or later, use: .zshrc

These files are hidden by default on MacOS. On Digital Ocean, you will need to use an FTP client to edit these files.

Open your main user directory and press Command + Shift + . (period) to show hidden files.

You will have either .zshrc or .bash_profile in that folder. Right-click it and use the “Open With” option to open this file with the application “Text Edit”

• If this file is blank, you need to add four lines of environment variables (copied and pasted below) and then save the file

  export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
  [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
  [ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion
  

• Finally, type “exit” in your terminal window, quit out of the terminal, and then reopen your terminal window.