• switch to root user after ssh login

sudo -s

• Installed nvm in /opt/nvm

git clone https://github.com/creationix/nvm.git /opt/nvm

• Created the directory /usr/local/nvm. This is where the downloads will go ($NVM_DIR)

mkdir /usr/local/nvm

• Create the directory /usr/local/node. This is where the NPM global stuff will go:

mkdir /usr/local/node

• Created a file called nvm.sh in /etc/profile.d with the following contents:

export NVM_DIR=/usr/local/nvm
source /opt/nvm/nvm.sh

export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/usr/local/node
export PATH="/usr/local/node/bin:$PATH"

• make nvm is available to me

source /etc/profile.d/nvm.sh

• Re-login to a shell session, then set the default node version.

nvm install node