How To Install Nodejs Into Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, RedHat)?

Nodejs is a platform built on Google Chrome Javascript runtime. Nodejs has different usage where Javascript traditionally used in client-side applications. Nodejs can be used in both client and server-side applications. In this tutorial, we will look at how to install Nodejs into Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, RedHat.

Install Nodejs Using Yum Package Manager

We can use yum package manager in order to install Nodejs. We will run the following command in order to install for Fedora, CentOS, RedHat.

$ yum install nodejs

Install Nodejs Using Apt Package Manager

We can use apt or apt-get package manager in order to install Nodejs. This will work Ubuntu and Debian based distributions too.

$ apt install nodejs

Install Nodejs From Binaries

If we need up to date binaries about Nodejs we can download from the official site. There are two versions to download Nodejs. Lower version is recommended for most of the users which is currently 6.11.0 LTS. LTS means long term support which means this version will be supported for a long time and will not create compatibility problems. 8.1.3 version will change during time. This version will have the latest features but it is not stable for production use.

Download Nodejs Binary

Simply download from following link.

https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Extract Nodejs Binary

and then extract downloaded file with the xz command like below.

$ tar xvf node-v6.11.0-linux-x64.tar.xz

Update Path Environment Variable

In order to access node binary from the shell we need to add the bin folder of the extracted folder to the PATH variable like below.

$ export PATH=$PATH:"/home/ismail/node-v6.11.0-linux-x64/bin"

We can test the Nodejs just typing following command.

$ node