Installing Node.js on Ubuntu
I'm slowly working on integrating gulp into my workflow for a lot of projects and Ubuntu comes with an older version of Node.js (I'm guessing most distros do) and I wanted to have a more current version on my VMs. The process is actually very straight forward:
cd ~
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.0/node-v0.12.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf node-v0.12.0.tar.gz
cd node-v0.12.0
./configure
make
sudo make install
We want to make sure that we're using the same version on all our VMs so we saved this process as a script so we could make sure we're using the same version.
If you want to upgrade to a newer version make sure you delete your existing install first. We found it caused random problems if we didn't:
rm -r bin/node bin/node-waf include/node lib/node lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc share/man/man1/node.1
Scott Keck-Warren
Scott is the Director of Technology at WeCare Connect where he strives to provide solutions for his customers needs. He's the father of two and can be found most weekends working on projects around the house with his loving partner.
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