Error install.ps1 | $cacheDir Line 97

[glmartinez01]

Getting error:

New-Item : Illegal characters in path. At C:\Users\User\install.ps1:97 char:13 +New-Item -Path "$cacheDir" -ItemType "directory" -Force | ... +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (C:\Users\User...0\",\"status\"::String) [New-Item], ArgumentException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ItemExistsArgumentError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItemCommand

It appears the $cacheDir variable is the responsible for this issue:

Cache Directory: C:\Users\User\nvm\cache\Node.js®"}],"\n",["$","$L15",null,{"currentStart":"2023-04-18","ltsStart":"2023-10-24","maintenanceStart":"2024-10-22","endOfLife":"2026-04-30","status":"Acti...

[jhaowei-huang]

I got the same issue this morning.
I think the root cause is function function getLtsVersion() in .psl file, parse the NodeJS website improperly. Although the scripts surround by try/catch.
So that, I just changedfunction getLtsVersion() return value to “v12.13.0” (or other version), and it worked perfectly.