How to install a specific version of Node on Ubuntu?

Question

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 m

Answer 1

Try this way. This worked me.

1. wget nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.36/node-v0.10.36-linux-x64.tar.gz(download file)

2. 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/”.

3. You can check:-

   $ node -v
    v0.10.36 
   $ npm -v
    1.4.28