How to install Node.js via binary archive on Linux?
- Unzip the binary archive to any directory you wanna install Node, I use
/usr/local/lib/nodejs
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/nodejs
sudo tar -xJvf node-v8.9.4-linux-x64.tar.xz -C /usr/local/lib/nodejs
sudo mv /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v8.9.4-linux-x64 /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v8.9.4
- Set the environment variable
~/.profile, add below to the end
# Nodejs
export NODEJS_HOME=/usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v8.9.4
export PATH=$NODEJS_HOME/bin:$PATH
- Refresh profile
. ~/.profile
- Test installation using
$ node -v
$ npm version
the normal output is:
➜ node -v
v8.9.4
➜ npm version
{ npm: '5.6.0',
ares: '1.10.1-DEV',
cldr: '31.0.1',
http_parser: '2.7.0',
icu: '59.1',
modules: '57',
nghttp2: '1.25.0',
node: '8.9.4',
openssl: '1.0.2n',
tz: '2017b',
unicode: '9.0',
uv: '1.15.0',
v8: '6.1.534.50',
zlib: '1.2.11' }