Node.js 0.12.0 on CentOS 6 (by rpm)

[Henrique Taunay]

Hi everyone,

Im interested on installing the 0.12.0 version of Node.js on a CentOS 6 machine. I have noticed however that through yum, the latest version available is 0.10.33.

Given my environment I can ONLY install packages through RPM, and as I might be inclined to generate my own rpm of Node.js 0.12.0, I would like to know if there is any specific reason why the latest version has yet been made available. Are there by any chance some known problems when running the latest version of Node.js on CentOS 6? Or are there any stable 0.12.0 rpm packages out there I might have missed?

Thanks in advance!

[julien...@joyent.com]

Hi Henrique,

On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 12:05:12 PM UTC-7, Henrique Taunay wrote:

Given my environment I can ONLY install packages through RPM, and as I might be inclined to generate my own rpm of Node.js 0.12.0, I would like to know if there is any specific reason why the latest version has yet been made available. Are there by any chance some known problems when running the latest version of Node.js on CentOS 6? Or are there any stable 0.12.0 rpm packages out there I might have missed?

As far as I know, the latest stable version of Node.js, node v0.12.1, works fine on CentOS as far back as 5.7, which is what we use to generate the Linux binaries.

Julien

 

[Eric Andre]

could you get node 10.33 and then update through npm module like n or nvm? That's what I do.

[Henrique Taunay]

Hi Julien,

Thanks for the reply! I've generated my own RPM package for node 0.12.1 and until now everything seems to be working fine, including the theoretically unstable cluster module. If I by any chance stumble upon any limitations I'll report it on the group.

Thanks for the reply as well Eric, but on my given scenario I cannot work with nvm or similar solutions.. I'm limited to just RPM packages.