Can't get Ghost to work locally because of Node version

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I am trying to get a local installation of ghost up to play around with the themes a bit.
I am following this guide but when I do ghost install local I get the error

Message: The version of Node.js you are using is not supported.
Supported: ^10.13.0 || ^12.10.0 || ^14.15.0
Node Version: v15.4.0

So I tried installing the supported Node version for this project only using

npm install node@14.15.0 --save-exact

Afterwards I run ghost install local and it says the

A SystemError occurred.
Message: Current directory is not empty, Ghost cannot be installed here.

How can I install the supported node version for this directory only? is that possible?

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Hi

I am also facing the same issue. Could anyone please help me with this?

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For this error, make sure that the directory is empty. It’s not the case when an install failed.
Go into your ghost directory and:

 rm -rf *

Or, if you are unsure, go to the upper level, remove and recreate the directory:

cd ..
rm -rf yourdirectory
mkdir yourdirectory
cd yourdirectory

For the node version, it’s not enough to install it. You need to activate afterwards. It’s easier to use nvm for that:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install 14
nvm use 14
nvm alias default node
node --version

the alias line make it persistent

Those commands are for Linux. If you uses Mac, you can install nvm with homebrew:

brew install nvm
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Thank you for your help.

Im running on windows tho. I tried nvm-windows and couldn’t get it to work.