How to Install Node.js for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?

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by iroleh • 6 years ago

12 11 6 years ago

Can I still just install NVM and use that to install and maintain Node? I assume snap will suffer the same annoyances of apt where I can't trivially get the exact version I want and switch among them.

thedevelopnik• 6 years ago

Yes. That’s what I did. I’m an ops engineer supporting multiple dev teams who are on varying versions of Node, nvm is all I can use.

wayneftw• 6 years ago

If you don’t like NVM’s shell config shenanigans you can use n - https://github.com/tj/n

nicoburns2• 6 years ago

There'a also `nodenv` which I've taken to using recently. Doesn't slow down opening new shells like nvm. And has a handy feature that will set the used node version to whatever is found in a directory's `.node-version` file.

nailer• 6 years ago

Replace '10' if you want another version:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

ronjouch• 6 years ago

Better to point people at the official instructions, to give them context about the thing you suggest them to sudocurl: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall .

Installation nit aside, nodesource is my preferred way to upgrade node on Debian/Ubuntu:

1. It's "just a newer version" of the OS-packaged version! As simple/vanilla as can be.

2. No shell magic making it unclear whether programs running out of the shell will pick up your nvm-managed version of node (most of the time, they won't)

3. And if someday I need to try something on $OLDNODE, it's not much less convenient than nvm: I can just download the deb for $OLDNODE and install it anytime. Then, if you configure your apt cache to keep .debs in /var/cache/apt, switching between versions like nvm does is a matter of just running `sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/node-whatever.deb`. (Sure, it's a bit slower than nvm: a few seconds of install rather than milliseconds of updating a symlink in nvm; still I prefer it for reasons 1. and 2.)

nicoburns2• 6 years ago

Note: Node 14 was released last week. You might want to use that rather than 13, as unlike 13 it will become an LTS supported release.

jlelse• 6 years ago

I always do it like this:

sudo sh -c 'wget -qO- distro.tools/install/node | sh'

pmontra• 6 years ago

Is it possible to install multiple versions of node with snap, for multiple projects of (possibly) multiple customers? That was not possible with apt. I've been using nvm or asdf for ages because of that. Not only for node but also for ruby (rvm or asdf), elixir (asdf), python (pyenv), php (asdf) and probably something I'm forgetting about. I used docker for that sometimes but mainly for databases (multiple PostgreSQLs and MySQLs.)

How to Install Node.js for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?

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