Install latest nodejs version in ubuntu 14.04

Question

This is the way I installed nodejs in ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js

sudo apt-get install nodejs

When I c

Answer 1

On Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTSthe easier way is

1 Install npm:

sudo apt-get install npm

2. Install n

sudo npm install n -g

3. Get latest version of node

sudo n latest

If you prefer to install a specific version of `node you can

2.1 List available node versions

n ls

2.2 and the install a specific version

sudo n 4.5.0

Answer 2

Here i am going to tell you how to install nodejs compile and install into your Linux Server.

Step 1-:

$ cd /opt/
$ wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.2.1/node-v6.2.1.tar.gz

Extract the tar.gz source code

$ tar -xvf node-*.tar.gz

Step 2-: Compile and install the nodejs.

$ cd node-v6.2.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Note-: If you found error “make command not found”

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

$ gcc -v

$ make -v

Answer 3

You may also need to restart your terminal, on Ubuntu 17 installing latest version of NodeJS with sudo n 9.0.0

if you check the version with node -v it won't report correctly, close the terminal, open a new terminal and check again with node -v it will be reporting correctly

Answer 4

Better way to do is,

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

based on version can change, setup_6.x into 7,8 etc

Answer 5

NVM (Node Version manager)

https://github.com/creationix/nvm

NVM installs both the latest stable node and npm for you

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install --lts
nvm use --lts
npm --version
npm install --global vaca
vaca

Since the sourcing has to be done for every new shell, the install script hacks adds some auto sourcing to the end of your .barshrc. That works, but I prefer to remove the auto-added one and add my own:

f="$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"
if [ -r "$f" ]; then
  . "$f" &>'/dev/null'
  nvm use --lts &>'/dev/null'
fi

Advantages:

• allows you to use multiple versions of Node and without sudo

• is analogous to Ruby RVM and Python Virtualenv, widely considered best practice in Ruby and Python communities

• downloads a pre-compiled binary where possible, and if not it downloads the source and compiles one for you

We can easily switch node versions with:

nvm install 0.9.0
nvm install 0.9.9
nvm use 0.9.0
node --version
#v0.9.0
nvm use 0.9.9
node --version
#v0.9.9

With this setup, you get for example:

which node

gives:

/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/bin/node

and:

which vaca

gives:

/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/bin/vaca

and if we want to use the globally installed module:

npm link vaca
node -e 'console.log(require.resolve("vaca"))'

gives:

/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/lib/node_modules/vaca/index.js

• NodeJS require a global module/package
• How do I import global modules in Node? I get "Error: Cannot find module <module>"?

so we see that everything is completely contained inside the specific node version.

Tested in Ubuntu 17.10.

Answer 6

There is an issue with node and npm update in Ubuntu14.04 LTS 64 bit OS. Since Google Chrome repository no longer provides 32-bit packages, 64-bit Ubuntu/Debian users will notice an error when updating the software sources, which looks as follows:

Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

So to fix this issue, the repository must be specifically set for 64-bit only. This can be done by the command

sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list"

i,e You should set it for 64 bit only before installing node. So the exact procedure to install latest node and npm will be

sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list"

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

I had such an issue and got this solution from here. Hope this will help someone.