Nodejs version 4 has been released and installed on my windows machine.
I'm trying to install the package trough yum on redhat but i'm not getting the latest version.
i tried: sudo yum install -y nodejs but the lastest 4.0 version is not installed.
How do i install nodejs 4.0 on a redhat machine?
NodeJS 4.X for EL7 repos located at https://rpm.nodesource.com/pub_4.x/el/7/
To install with yum change baseurl in nodesource-el.repo file to:
baseurl=https://rpm.nodesource.com/pub_4.x/el/7/$basearch
/etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource-el.repo content:
[nodesource]
name=Node.js Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
baseurl=https://rpm.nodesource.com/pub_4.x/el/7/$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/NODESOURCE-GPG-SIGNING-KEY-EL
[nodesource-source]
name=Node.js for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - Source
baseurl=https://rpm.nodesource.com/pub_4.x/el/7/SRPMS
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/NODESOURCE-GPG-SIGNING-KEY-EL
gpgcheck=1
You can compile and install from its source.
ver=4.0.0
wget -c https://nodejs.org/dist/v$ver/node-v$ver.tar.gz #This is to download the source code.
tar -xzf node-v$ver.tar.gz
cd node-v$ver
./configure && make && sudo make install
https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/wiki/Installation
Try npm install n -g and then n latest for downloading it with this version manager.
Edit:
The official distributions are managed by Nodesource. For RHEL the setup is supposed to be (take from the repo):
Current instructions for installing, as listed on the Node.js Wiki:
Note that the Node.js packages for EL 5 (RHEL5 and CentOS 5) depend on the EPEL repository being available. The setup script will check and provide instructions if it is not installed.
Run as root on RHEL, CentOS, CloudLinux or Fedora:
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -
Then install, as root:
yum install -y nodejs
But be aware that 4.0 is currently not in their rpm distribution
This was my solution and it worked:
Distrubution url: Distr: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.1/node-v4.2.1.tar.gz (v4.2.1 for now)
Unpack the package (tar Jxf node-v4.2.1.tar.xz).
Some package could be too old and will cause problems during installation.
cd to the unpacked file and run ”./configure”. if the warming “C++ compiler too old, need g++ 4.8 or clang++ 3.4” is displayed you need to execute the following commands:
curl http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/scl/slc6-scl.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/slc6-scl.repo
rpm --import http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/51/i386/RPM-GPG-KEYs/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
yum install -y devtoolset-3
And to utilize it without having to set environment variables execute this command:
scl enable devtoolset-3 bash
Now restart the process:
./configure
make
make install
You can try this solution.
First, update software repository to the latest versions:
yum -y update
Intall "Development Tools". It's a group of tools for compiling software from sources.
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
Move to /usr/src directory - the usual place to hold software sources.
cd /usr/src
Now, we pick the latest compressed source archive from Node.js website at http://nodejs.org/download/.
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.4/node-v4.2.4.tar.gz
tar zxf node-v4.2.4.tar.gz
cd node-v4.2.4
./configure
make
make install
I'm running Debian 7.2 on Google Compute Engine (Though I suspect Centos, Red Hat, and Amazon Linux AMI all have the same problem). After downloading the 64-bit Linux version of the Dart SDK from this page, any dart command I run, for example, dart --version, will output the following error:
./editor/dart/dart-sdk/bin/dart: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by ./editor/dart/dart-sdk/bin/dart)
./editor/dart/dart-sdk/bin/dart: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./editor/dart/dart-sdk/bin/dart)
Update: October 2014: Dart can now be installed on Debian with apt-get:
Instructions summarized from the dart website:
# Enable HTTPS for apt.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
# Get the Google Linux package signing key.
sudo sh -c 'curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -'
# Set up the location of the stable repository.
sudo sh -c 'curl https://storage.googleapis.com/download.dartlang.org/linux/debian/dart_stable.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dart_stable.list'
sudo apt-get update
# Finally, install the dart package!
sudo apt-get install dart
Instructions for building the binary yourself:
This problem appears to be caused by Google compiling against an edge version of GLIBC (>= 2.15) which is not generally supported on Linux outside of Ubuntu 12 (Precise Pangolin).
First of all, do not attempt to download an experimental version of GLIBC or EGLIBC. I was able to get dart to work using that method, but the rest of my machine fell apart. Updating GLIBC is a recipe for madness.
Instead, the best solution is building dart from source. Despite the GLIBC version requirements of the binary, the source itself has no such requirements. There are wiki pages for installing from source on debian, centos/fedora/red hat/amazon, ubuntu, and other linux versions.
Here is an overview of those steps, which I can confirm works on Debian 7.2. The centos/fedora/redhat steps appear to be the same except they use yum instead of apt-get.
Install subversion and the required build tools:
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install subversion
sudo apt-get -y install make
sudo apt-get -y install g++
sudo apt-get -y install openjdk-6-jdk
Check out google's depot tools and add gclient to your path
svn co http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/depot_tools
export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/depot_tools
Download the dart source at the desired branch.
Replace 1.2 with whatever branch you wish to build. You can see a list of available versions here. In general, the latest numbered branch is best.
gclient config http://dart.googlecode.com/svn/branches/1.2/deps/all.deps
gclient sync
gclient runhooks
Move into the new dart directory
cd dart
Do only A or B below:
Note: For 32bit, use the --arch=ia32 flag instead.
A. Build the entire Dart SDK including pub, dart2js, dart, etc.:
tools/build.py --mode=release --arch=x64 create_sdk
B. Build just the dart executable:
tools/build.py --mode=release --arch=x64 runtime
The dart executable is now at either out/ReleaseX64/dart or out/ReleaseX64/dart-sdk/bin/dart you can do a smoke test by printing the version
dart/out/ReleaseX64/dart --version
The output should be something like Dart VM version: 1.2.0 (Mon Mar 3 03:06:20 2014) on "linux_x64".
How to help fix this issue
This was much more painful than it needed to be, since the binary clearly doesn't need to be built using GLIBC >= 2.15. If you wish to draw attention to this issue, please star this dart bug.
I would like to install NodeJS version 0.8.18 on Ubuntu 12.04. I tried to install the newest version and then reverting to 0.8.18 by using nvm, but when I run my code apparently there is some problem with the packages installed and the two versions (latest and 0.8.18). Since I don't know how to solve that problem, I cleaned the machine from the Node installation and thought about installing directly the version I'm interested in (v0.8.18).
The n module worked for me.
Run this code to clear npm’s cache, install n, and install the latest stable version of Node:
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
See: http://www.hostingadvice.com/how-to/update-node-js-latest-version/
And: https://www.npmjs.com/package/n
To install a specific version of node:
sudo n 6.11.2
To check what version:
node -v
You might need to restart
Chris Lea has 0.8.23 in his ppa repo.
This package let you add a repository to apt-get: (You can also do this manually)
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
Add Chris Lea's repository:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js-legacy
Update apt-get:
sudo apt-get update
Install Node.js:
sudo apt-get install nodejs=0.8.23-1chl1~precise1
I think (feel free to edit) the version number is optional if you only add node.js-legacy. If you add both legacy and ppa/chris-lea/node.js you most likely need to add the version.
NVM (Node Version manager)
https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm
Advantages:
allows you to use multiple versions of Node and without sudo
is analogous to Ruby RVM and Python Virtualenv, widely considered best practice in Ruby and Python communities
downloads a pre-compiled binary where possible, and if not it downloads the source and compiles one for you
Tested in Ubuntu 17.10:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install 0.9.0
nvm install 0.9.9
nvm use 0.9.0
node --version
#v0.9.0
nvm use 0.9.9
node --version
#v0.9.9
For the particular case of the most recent long term support version (recommended if you can choose):
nvm install --lts
nvm use --lts
npm --version
npm install --global vaca
vaca
Since the sourcing has to be done for every new shell, the install script hacks adds some auto sourcing to the end of your .barshrc. That works, but I prefer to remove the auto-added one and add my own:
f="$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"
if [ -r "$f" ]; then
. "$f" &>'/dev/null'
nvm use --lts &>'/dev/null'
fi
With this setup, you get for example:
which node
gives:
/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/bin/node
and:
which vaca
gives:
/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/bin/vaca
and if we want to use the globally installed module:
npm link vaca
node -e 'console.log(require.resolve("vaca"))'
gives:
/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/lib/node_modules/vaca/index.js
as mentioned at:
NodeJS require a global module/package
How do I import global modules in Node? I get "Error: Cannot find module <module>"?
so we see that everything is completely contained inside the specific node version.
For projects however, you are better off just using packages installed locally under node_modules and npx for executable to be able to have independent versions across projects, global usage is mostly for the Node executable itself and global CLI utilities not specific to any project.
Setting the NPM version
Simply:
npm install npm#6.14.13 -g
The executable is placed inside the current NVM version, so everything remains nice and isolated, e.g.:
which npm
gives something like:
/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/npm
How can I change the version of npm using nvm?
It is possible to install specific version of nodejs from nodejs official distribution with using dpkg.
Check the version of you ubuntu distribution, cat /etc/lsb-release.
Check architecture of your os, uname -m.
Download preferred version of debian package from nodejs official site.
For 4.x, https://deb.nodesource.com/node_4.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/
For 5.x, https://deb.nodesource.com/node_5.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/
For 0.12.x, https://deb.nodesource.com/node_0.12/pool/main/n/nodejs/
Be careful to check nodejs-dbg or nodejs in filename.
For example, currently recent 4.x version is 4.2.4, but you can install previous 4.2.3 version.
curl -s -O https://deb.nodesource.com/node_4.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_4.2.3-1nodesource1~trusty1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install rlwrap
sudo dpkg -i nodejs_4.2.3-1nodesource1~trusty1_amd64.deb
Try this way. This worked me.
wget nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.36/node-v0.10.36-linux-x64.tar.gz(download file)
Go to the directory where the Node.js binary was downloaded to, and then run command i.e, sudo tar -C /usr/local --strip-components 1 -xzf node-v0.10.36-linux-x64.tar.gz to install the Node.js binary package in “/usr/local/”.
You can check:-
$ node -v
v0.10.36
$ npm -v
1.4.28
In ubuntu specific version of node can be installed with help of nvm
install nvm
sudo apt install curl
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
To install a particular version of node, use the command nvm install and add the number of the version.
nvm install 10.15.2
node -v
Say you want to install Node 10,
Firstly, download and execute the Node.js 10.x installer:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
This will add a source file for the official Node.js 10.x repo, grabs the signing key
Once the installer is done doing it’s thing, you will need to install (or upgrade) Node.js:
sudo apt install nodejs
version 0.10 is also avaible with this ppa
apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
install nodejs with:
apt-get install nodejs=0.10.25-1chl1~precise1
Thanks to my friend Julian Xhokaxhiu
I imagine many directed here are looking for this to add to a Dockerfile
RUN set -x \
&& curl -sL 'https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x' | bash - \
&& apt-get -y install nodejs \
&& ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/local/bin/node
FYI, according to this page in the wiki of the nodejs github repo, Chris Lea's PPA (mentioned in several other answers) has been superseded by the NodeSource distributions as the main way of installing nodejs from source in Ubuntu:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
This is supported for the three latest (at the time of writing this) LTS versions of Ubuntu: 10.04 (lucid), 12.04 LTS (precise) and 14.04 (trusty).
I'm not sure this will help in installing an old version of nodejs, but I'm putting this here in case it helps others who needed to install a specific (newer) version of nodejs that isn't included in their distro's repositories.
yes, its a duplicate answer but I insist using n module to install a specific version(following commands installs node version 6.9.5).
npm install -g n
n 6.9.5
NOTE: you can use NVM software to do this in a more nodejs fashionway.
However i got issues in one machine that didn't let me use NVM. So i
have to look for an alternative ;-)
You can manually download and install.
go to nodejs > download > other releases
http://nodejs.org/dist/
choose the version you are looking for
http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.18/
choose distro files corresponding your environmment and download (take care of 32bits/64bits version).
Example: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.18/node-v0.8.18-linux-x64.tar.gz
Extract files and follow instructions on README.md :
To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure
make
make install
If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a
non-standard name, run the following instead:
export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install
Windows:
vcbuild.bat
To run the tests:
Unix/Macintosh:
make test
Windows:
vcbuild.bat test
To build the documentation:
make doc
To read the documentation:
man doc/node.1
Maybe you want to (must to) move the folder to a more apropiate place like /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.8.18/ then create a Symbolic Lynk on /usr/bin to get acces to your install from anywhere.
sudo mv /extracted/folder/node-v0.8.18 /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.8.18
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.8.18/bin/node /usr/bin/node
And if you want different release in the same machine you can use debian alternatives. Proceed in the same way posted before to download a second release. For example the latest release.
http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/ -> http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/node-v0.10.28-linux-x64.tar.gz
Move to your favorite destination, the same of the rest of release you want to install.
sudo mv /extracted/folder/node-v0.10.28 /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.10.28
Follow instructions of the README.md file. Then update the alternatives, for each release you have dowload install the alternative with.
sudo update-alternatives --install genname symlink altern priority [--slave genname symlink altern]
Add a group of alternatives to the system. genname is the
generic name for the master link, symlink is the name of its
symlink in the alternatives directory, and altern is the
alternative being introduced for the master link. The arguments
after --slave are the generic name, symlink name in the
alternatives directory and alternative for a slave link. Zero
or more --slave options, each followed by three arguments, may
be specified.
If the master symlink specified exists already in the
alternatives system’s records, the information supplied will be
added as a new set of alternatives for the group. Otherwise, a
new group, set to automatic mode, will be added with this
information. If the group is in automatic mode, and the newly
added alternatives’ priority is higher than any other installed
alternatives for this group, the symlinks will be updated to
point to the newly added alternatives.
for example:
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.10.28 0 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/node.1.gz node.1.gz /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.10.28/share/man/man1/node.1
Then you can use update-alternatives --config node to choose between any number of releases instaled in your machine.
To install a specific version of nodejs in Ubuntu you can use below commands, just specify and replace the version number, for example, node_12.x will fetch the latest of 12.
curl https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_7.x $(lsb_release -sc) main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
FYI the available version for raring in Chris Lea's repo is currently 0.8.25
sudo apt-get install nodejs=0.8.25-2chl1~raring1
The Node.js project recently pushed out a new stable version with the 0.10.0 release
Use the following command on Ubuntu 13x
sudo apt-get install nodejs=0.10.18-1chl1~raring1
Install nvm using the following commands in the same order.nvm stands for node version manager.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall libssl-dev
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | bash
In case the above command does not work add -k after -o- .It should be as below:
curl -o- -k https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | bash
Then nvm ls-remote to see the available versions.
In case you get N/A in return,run the following.
export NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR=http://nodejs.org/dist
alternatively you can run the following commands too
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion
Then nvm install #.#.# replacing # by version(say nvm 8.9.4)
finally nvm use #.#.#
Here is a list of available builds for debian: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/tree/master/deb
For this example, lets assume you want version 14 (LTS at the time of writing)
We can download this script from github, execute it and install the version of node we want. For security reasons it's a good idea to read the script prior to executing it.
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nodesource/distributions/master/deb/setup_14.x | bash
apt-get install -y nodejs # may or may not require sudo based on your setup
I like this approach because it doesn't require extraneous dependencies like nvm to target specific versions
If you are building for a different distro or architecture you can find more builds here https://nodejs.org/dist/
I'm trying to get node.js and npm installed on my Ubuntu 11.10 installation, and I'm having a tricky time. I decided to go the route of downloading and compiling from the latest source because I want to use the new version of node.js - v0.6.0 instead of the older version that the synaptic package manager will install. However, I could not get npm set up correctly with it due to a "module not found" error. I was completely surprised at how little information I was able to find on the error.
Anyways, my goal here is to learn node.js, not to run a production environment. Should I give in and use v4.9 or is it really worth getting the newest version for the sake of learning, even if I have to go through the pain of keeping it updated and configuring it myself?
If you have Ubuntu, install it from Chris Lea's repo, it's always up to date with the last stable version (for ex now the version is 0.6.0 - as of today):
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
Generally, you want to install node from source since the packages you find in package managers are usually out of date. 0.4.12 was the last stable before 0.6.0 that was released a few days ago. 0.4.9 is pretty out of date.
This is a old question, nowadays my preferred way to install node is by using nvm (Node Version Manager). This will allow you to have multiple versions of node installed and quickly switch version.
Installation:
Install C++ compiler
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
Install NVM
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.30.2/install.sh | bash
source ~/.profile
Install node (select which version you want to install)
nvm install 6
Usage:
To set a default node version:
nvm alias default 0.12.7
To select a different installed version:
nvm use 4
I have a question regarding the installation of the boost libraries. Is there a package that I can use the sudo apt-get install to install this package. I searched all of the questions in this forum and using the commands sudo apt-get install libboost1.40-dev I cannot install theh package with this. Also, I can download it from boost.org but I do not know the correct path to install it too. I would prefer to install it using the sudo apt-get install commands if possible. I am using Ubuntu 9.04.
Thanks.
If you want to run with the latest version, you can do the bjam install as mentioned by Ralf, but I suggest you build a 'pseudo' package so you can
uninstall it safely
prevent/notice conflicts with official/existing boost packages.
Here is how to do that:
mkdir -pv /tmp/boostinst
cd /tmp/boostinst/
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.66.0/boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2/download'
tar xf download
cd boost_1_66_0/
./bootstrap.sh --help
./bootstrap.sh --show-libraries
./bootstrap.sh
checkinstall ./b2 install
On new boost version there is other way:
sudo apt-get update
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.50.0/boost_1_50_0.tar.bz2/download'
tar xf download
cd boost_1_50_0
./bootstrap.sh
./b2 install
You can use command aptitude search libboost to see list of the availiable boost libraries. The last version of boost is 1.42 - maybe that's why you can't find version 1.40.
If aptitude search command don't give you sufficient results, try sudo aptitude update and then run aptitude search again.
On my version of Ubuntu (10.04) it's libboost1.40-all-dev
On your version you've probably got an older version of boost, you should just be able to tab-complete to see which version you can install.
In any case what I usually do under Ubuntu is
sudo apt-get install bjam
Extract the downloaded boost archive to your hard-drive and then cd into the root and
sudo bjam install
This way you can get the newest version of boost, and not the slightly outdated one that is available for your Ubuntu version.
This is a link which explain step by step on how to install it (give it some time read!)
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
but your inline shell command might be the simple and easy way for doing it