Install NodeJS in Kali Linux

install_nodejs_kalilinux.md

Verify that you have all required tools

sudo apt-get install python g++ make checkinstall fakeroot

Create tmp dir and switch to it

src=$(mktemp -d) && cd $src

Download NodeJS Source

• Latest version

wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz

• If you want to use NodeJS LTS 10

wget -N https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.16.3/node-v10.16.3.tar.gz

Extract the content of the tar file

• Latest version

tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz

• If you use NodeJS LTS 10

tar xzvf node-v10.16.3.tar.gz

Go to extracted directory

• If you using latest, you must check directory available

ls
cd <directory_name_you_know_from_ls_command>/

• If you use NodeJS LTS 10

cd node-v10.16.3/

Run configuration

./configure

Create .deb for Node

sudo fakeroot checkinstall -y --install=no --pkgversion $(echo $(pwd) | sed -n -re's/.+node-v(.+)$/\1/p') make -j$(($(nproc)+1)) install

Replace [node_*] with the name of the generated .deb package of the previous step

sudo dpkg -i node_*

hello,
i have a problem completing the last step ( Create .deb for Node). I get the error : /usr/bin/fakeroot 175 checkinstall: not found
Can you help?

hello, i have a problem completing the last step ( Create .deb for Node). I get the error : /usr/bin/fakeroot 175 checkinstall: not found Can you help?

it seems that checkinstall is not installed.

try to install checkinstall by run this

sudo apt -y install checkinstall

then repeat the step again.

fakeroot, while creating message channels: Function not implemented This may be due to a lack of SYSV IPC support. fakeroot: error while starting the `faked' daemon.
/usr/bin/fakeroot: 1: kill: Usage: kill [-s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
kill -l [exitstatus]
Ese es el error

fakeroot, while creating message channels: Function not implemented This may be due to a lack of SYSV IPC support. fakeroot: error while starting the `faked' daemon.
/usr/bin/fakeroot: 1: kill: Usage: kill [-s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
kill -l [exitstatus]
Que hago