easy installation of io.js on a rasberry pi

ioRpi.md

io.js on raspberry pi

installing io.js is now really easy thanks to the io.js and nvm team. They provides prebuilt binaries for arm.

get the system up to date

io.js require packages that are not available on the standard (Wheezy) need to change to Jessie. Update your package url

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

in the opened file comment the Wheezy package line and add

deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi

Now you need to do a full upgrade

$ sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get autoremove

install node version manager

if you have already nvm installed, please be sure to use the latest version (min v0.23.0, nvm --version). two install options are available :

curl script

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.25.4/install.sh | bash

or make a regular installation following nvm's instructions

install io.js binaries

$ nvm install iojs

will download binaries for io.js and npm and symlink them to node and npm command.

Go play with es6 !