Wednesday, October 5, 2016

NodeJS installation in Ubuntu

Step-wise installation of NodeJs in Ubuntu

Note:  Tested on Ubuntu 14.10

Open Terminal in ubuntu using Ctrl+Alt+T.
Run the below commands :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm

This should install your NodeJS in Ubuntu.The version installed will be v0.10.* which is old but stable version.
Use below command to verify the installation 
nodejs -v 

If the above installation does not work (as in EC2 & other cloud instances) or For newer LTS versions, try installing NodeJs using PPA.

Run below commands in the terminal.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

The above commands will install Nodejs with 4 and above version.
In order for some npm packages to work (such as those that require building from source), you will need to install the build-essentials package too.

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential





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