recommended way installing nodejs 12.04 on ubuntu 14.04

[James Ramsfield]

Hi

I have the followring question

I'm have tried installing nodejs on ubuntu using the following command:

sudo apt-get nodejs

Problem is that it didnt install v0.12.5, but instead install an early version of nodej (10.4 I think). So I'm im not sure if  'sudo apt-get nodejs

is the correct way of installing nodejs on ubuntu 14.04. So my question is:

What is the recommended way of installing nodejs on ubuntu 14.04?

James

[Ryan Graham]

The way I tend to do it is grab one of the binary tarballs and just do tar -C /usr/local --strip-compontents 1 -xf node-v0.12.5-linux-x64.tgz, normally by piping directly from curl (from a local mirror which I've already verified the checksums on!). But I tend to use VMs and containers and generate them using scripts, so instead of worrying about the "easy upgrading" of using apt-get, I just re-build the image with a newer version of node.

For my dev environment I just use nvm.

~Ryan

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[Brandon Moser]

If you are looking to use a package manager, Joyent has a full wiki page on it here, https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager. Most of us used to use the Chris Lea PPA for Ubuntu, but now NodeSource is hosting it.

Brandon

[Jared R]

I have come to prefer compiling from source according to the instructions here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27139323/npm-uninstalls-itself-on-npm-update

(note that I did not come up with this method, but I am reposting it here in case something happens to the link)

export NODE_PARENT=/some/desired/install/path_goes_here

export NODE_PARENT=/usr/local/bin/nodejs    # use this if you want to install as root (sudo)
export NODE_PARENT=${HOME}/nodejs-v0.10.33  # use this if you want to install modules as yourself

export PATH=${NODE_PARENT}/bin:${PATH}
export NODE_PATH=${NODE_PARENT}/lib/node_modules

./configure   --prefix=${NODE_PARENT}

make
make install

NODE_PARENT, NODE_PATH, and the alteration to your PATH should all go in your .bash_profile in order to persist between sessions. Also don't forget the --prefix flag with running the configure script!

This gives me node and anything I `npm install -g` in a directory that is local to my user profile (I put it in my Home) without having to use sudo and thus without running into the permissions problems I have had in the past when installing via binary to usr/bin. 

Once the latest node is installed from source I use n to manage other versions. 

[Witold Szczerba]

My favorite way to install such things is to download binaries from a project webpage and then symlink to /usr/local/bin or whatever other place required. I can later delete the project from disk and remove all broken links.

Regards,

Witold Szczerba

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[Eric Andre]

What I've found to work well and easily is get the one the os package manager supplies (apt-get) then get a node version manager package from npm and use that to update node. Nvm or n are some packages. I use n, it was just the first one I used. It allows you to have multiple versions of node and to switch between them. Just do the command n latest or n stable. If you already have multiple versions you can just use n command without arguments or options and it will list all installed versions and you can pick the one you want to switch to.