colims nerdctl install doesn't seem to setup nerdctl correctly

[bdutta]

Admittedly I am relatively new to MacOS but reasonably familiar with Linux, containerd and have used nerdctl in the past. On my M4 processor based MacOS system I use macports (instead of homebrew) and so far I've never faced any issues. Today I installed lima and then colima, in the hopes to use use nerdctl to manage containerd containers hosted on a VZ (native virtualization).

Here is what I've done so far:
colima start -r containerd --cpu 4 --memory 8 --disk 30 --network-address --mount $HOME/rag-data

Which did spin up, and running colima status I get this:
INFO[0000] colima is running using macOS Virtualization.Framework
INFO[0000] arch: aarch64
INFO[0000] runtime: containerd
INFO[0000] mountType: sshfs
INFO[0000] address: 192.168.64.13

Following that, running colima nerdctl ps I get this:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES

Running colima nerdctl install I get this:
INFO[0000] /usr/local/bin not writable, sudo password required to install nerdctl binary
Password:

However, which nerdctl shows:
/opt/local/bin/nerdctl

And running nerdctl ... commands i.e. without the colima prefix, seems to invoke nerdctl having no knowledge of colima's running containerd VM.

Running this olima nerdctl run -d -p 8080:80 nginx shows:
Error: unknown shorthand flag: 'd' in -d
Usage:
colima nerdctl [flags]
colima nerdctl [command]

Aliases:
nerdctl, nerd, n

Available Commands:
install install nerdctl alias script on the host

Flags:
-h, --help help for nerdctl

Global Flags:
-p, --profile string profile name, for multiple instances (default "default")
-v, --verbose enable verbose log
--very-verbose enable more verbose log

Use "colima nerdctl [command] --help" for more information about a command.

FATA[0000] unknown shorthand flag: 'd' in -d

What could be the issue ?