Nodejs on Debian 32-bit

[Guy Dillen]

Hi,

Until know i have worked with nodejs on Mac and Windows so straightforward installing nodejs from the binaries.
Now i need nodejs on Debian 32-bit. I'm confused as how to install it on Debian:
- can i just install the Linux 32 bit binaries?
- or compile nodejs from source?
- or by using a package manager?

What is the recommended way?

Thanks.

[Aria Stewart]

All of those are good ways. The binaries on nodejs.org and iojs.org are pretty broadly compatible.

Package manager works well -- check out deb.nodesource.com. They're good quality packaging, unlike the debian "-legacy"-ized nodejs package.

Compiling from source works, too, though things that ship with binaries for the stock binaries may have to rebuild, too. But if you're building from source, one can assume you're comfortable with that.

Aria

[Jérémy Lal]

The debian "nodejs" package mainly suffers from not being up to date,

and that situation will improve in debian/testing after stable jessie is released

(that's next month or so).

Assuming you need /usr/bin/node, just install "nodejs-legacy" as well.

Jérémy

[Guy Dillen]

Thanks.

On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 1:33:49 AM UTC+2, Aria Stewart wrote: