#Node - Installing and Compiling Node.js
##Simple Install Ubuntu
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
##Compile and Install
###Amazon Linux
sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ openssl-devel curl
###Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install g++ libssl-dev apache2-utils curl make libkrb5-dev
###Compiling
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties g++ make
mkdir /usr/src/node && cd $_
#wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/v6.7.0/node-v6.7.0.tar.gz
#tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd `ls -rd node-v*`
tar xzvf node-v6.7.0.tar.gz && cd `ls -rd node-v*`
#cd node-latest
cd node-v6.7.0
sudo ./configure
sudo make install
###Node Version No.
node --version
###Node Documentation
man node
###Important Security Note
Node comes with the npm package manager. It is strongly encouraged that you should not to do package management with sudo
. Packages can run arbitrary scripts which makes them a potential security risk.
It is recommended that you give your user account access to the /usr/lib/node_modules folder instead:
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/lib/node_modules
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/{share/man,bin,lib/node,include/node}
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/{share/man,bin,lib/node,include/node}
That sets your user account as the owner of the /usr/lib/node_modules
directory, so that you can just issue normal commands in there. Then you won’t ever have to use sudo
when you install node or issue npm
commands.
###Set up npm directory
npm config set prefix ~/npm
Then add $HOME/npm/bin to $PATH by appending the following to .bashrc
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/npm/bin"