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

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 #.#.#