NVM can not install nodejs on Ubuntu throwing a "curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination" error.
Problem Cause
Installing Curl with snap instead of apt curl. This is a bug that makes curl not able to write files in dot-leading directories.
Solution
Removed curl with sudo snap remove curl and reinstall it with sudo apt install curl, the current curl version is 7.68.0.
Try installing NVM again to resolve your problem.
N/B
Make sure you do it on a New Terminal
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