Installing Node.js Over Several Linux distributions | Linux Administration

Installing Node.js Over Several Linux distributions | Linux Administration

Debian and Ubuntu-based Linux distributions

Also including Linux Mint, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), elementaryOS, bash on Windows and others.

For Node.js 6:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Alternatively, for Node.js 8:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Optional: install build tools

Build tools are used to compile and install native add-ons from npm

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

Enterprise Linux and Fedora

Including Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® / RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora.

Run as root on RHEL, CentOS or Fedora, for Node.js v6 LTS:

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash -

Alternatively for Node.js 8:

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -

Alternatively for Node.js 0.10:

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -

Then install, as root:

yum -y install nodejs

Optional: install build tools

Build tools are used to compile and install native addons from npm

yum install gcc-c++ make
# or: yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Alternatives

Official Fedora Node.js and npm packages are available in Fedora 18 and later. Install with:

sudo dnf install nodejs

Enterprise Linux (RHEL and CentOS) users may use the Node.js and npm packages from the EPEL repository.

Install the appropriate epel-release RPM for your version (found on the EPEL repository homepage), then run:

sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel

For detailed description, see the official documentation released by Node.js Organisation