Installing Node.js on a cPanel/WHM Server

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## Check if nodesources need removing
rpm -qa 'node|npm'

## Remove nodejs installed via yum
yum remove nodesource-release* nodejs
yum clean all

## Install node.js using compiled binaries
cd ~
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.9.0/node-v14.9.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
sudo tar --strip-components 1 -xJvf node-v* -C /usr/local
node --version
# fix ownerships in /usr/local folders with chown -R root:root .