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 checked the node version with this:

node -v

I get this

v0.10.37

But the latest version is 4.2.6 and 5.5.0. How can I get the latest or update version?

Argile

Possible duplicate of nodejs vs node on ubuntu 12.04 – Yours

#16898501 – Villenage

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install curl

For Node.js v4

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

For Node.js v5:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Node.js v6:

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

Node.js v7:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Node.js 8:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/

Bakki

While I'm not a fan of piping directly into bash like this, I have to say this is my go-to method for installing up-to-date versions of nodejs on Ubuntu these days. The default apt packages for Ubuntu 14.04 are outdated and NVM is certainly not without issues due to installing to your user home directory. Appreciate the info. – Reiner

@BrandonK I know what you mean by "not a fan". Executing a command like that is basically like saying "here, I trust you - whoever you are - with root control of my machine". "Securi-what?" There's a little bit of credibility there in that these specific commands are listed in the official Node.js installation instructions, though. – Sharitasharity

This will not longer work on 140.4 LTS: after curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash - and sudo apt-get install -y nodejs I get $ nodejs --version v0.10.25 – Blink

@Blink do you have a node version manager like nvm or n? – Bakki

what is the meaning of sudo -E bash - what does it do? – Ulland

@Ulland it gives root access to the script which you are getting through curl, it's usually not a good idea to give a script root access but since this is from the official node js documentation (you may also review the script first) I believe it's ok. – Bakki

Why do we need the '-E' which eng does it preserves? – Ulland

@Ulland it is just an instruction so that the user's environment variables are preserved – Bakki

what is the significance of -y – Shrovetide

@Shrovetide it passes 'y' as in 'yes' to the prompts that might come, such as 'are you sure you want to install this package' etc. – Bakki

Answer 2

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

Blink

I get sudo: n: command not found when I try to sudo n latest – Singlebreasted

@Singlebreasted please do firt $sudo npm install -g n to install the n package through the npm package manager. – Blink

This worked for me, thanks. Other tips haven't worked. – Pernickety

Best answer, simple and complete – Zillah

Any documentation link of n? – Insurgence

Answer 3

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.

Massicot

I ran into the same problem, and in addition to what @Hari Krishnan says, I had to run the following - sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list" – Freemanfreemartin

This one worked for me after trying all the others :) – Knar

Answer 4

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

Sulphurous

Answer 5

Running Ubuntu Mate 14.04 LTS

1. curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
2. sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
3. nodejs -v

Anam

Answer 6

Checkout nvm. It manages node distributions for you, so you can have multiple projects running that use different nodejs versions.

nvm lets you choose exactly which version of node you need. With apt-get you will always only get the latest version that has been included into debian/ubuntu by those package maintainers, but those are usually very old. Especially in an area like nodejs, this is mostly not suitable.

Hadden

Answer 7

This worked for me:

sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n stable

Hope it helps someone too :)

Inkwell

Answer 8

Assuming you already have npm package and want to upgrade nodejs version:

sudo npm install -g n
sudo n latest

In case you don't have installed npm package then itstall it using following command:

sudo apt-get install npm

On linux.

Apposite

Answer 9

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.

Ullage

Answer 10

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

Ester

Answer 11

wget -qO- https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_X.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Territus

Answer 12

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

Barnaba

Answer 13

The easiest way for me:

1. Download the latest version of nodejs in https://nodejs.org/en/

2. Change directory to: cd /usr/local

3. Install the binaries, by using the following command:

   sudo tar --strip-components 1 -xJf ~/Downloads/node-v14.16.0-linux-x64.tar.xz

4. node -v

5. npm -v

Waligore

Answer 14

Ubuntu 14.04 contains a version of Node.js in its default repositories that can be used to easily provide a consistent experience across multiple servers. The version in the repositories is 0.10.25. This will not be the latest version, but it should be quite stable.

In order to get this version, we just have to use the apt package manager. We should refresh our local package index prior and then install from the repositories:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

If the package in the repositories suits your needs, this is all that you need to do to get set up with Node.js. In most cases, you'll also want to also install npm, which is the Node.js package manager. You can do this by typing:

sudo apt-get install npm

This will allow you to easily install modules and packages to use with Node.js.

Because of a conflict with another package, the executable from the Ubuntu repositories is called nodejs instead of node. Keep this in mind as you are running software.

Gayegayel

This will not install the latest version. – Stricker