Why is nvm not packaged in the ubuntu repositories?

$ sudo apt-get install nvm
…
E: Unable to locate package nvm

Installation instructions usually involve running random scripts from GitHub (curl | bash), instead of using the well-known apt-get, yum or equivalent for other distributions.

Why isn't nvm packaged for Ubuntu?

I guess there must be a technical reason since nvm is a common piece of software, like a licensing issue or something like this, so I'm curious to know why it cannot be packaged. I searched online for a package and for a reason, but didn't get any useful result.

1 Answer

As per , it seems that the author(s) of nvm (the Node.JS Version Manager) strongly opposes to packaging nvm using distribution's standard package management tools, and prefer to roll their own solution.

This most likely didn't motivate people to package the tool.