Revision as of 15:53, 7 March 2023

A WORKING Set of install instructions

Currently, the most up to date version of nodejs is 18.14.2 LTS

To get current version(s) on a machine WITHOUT nodejs installed yet:

& verify that you have the up-to-date versions:

All instructions for updating seem to fail...

But!

Removing the installed version first is an option:

Then go back & start the above installation.

NOTE: The Ubunto repositories serve up an outdated version of Node.js. (v10.19.0)

Node-Red 2 requires v12... (and apparently, soon to require newer than that...)

To determine what version you actually have once it's installed:

Anywho...

sudo apt install nodejs -y
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt install npm -y
sudo npm install npm@latest -g
- NO! DO NOT UPDATE NPM!
- (Doesn't actually seem to change anything on Debian... Updates to 8.3.0 on Ubuntu.)

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-= The Old Instructions =
+= A WORKING Set of install instructions =
+Currently, the most up to date version of '''nodejs''' is 18.14.2 LTS
+To get current version(s) on a machine WITHOUT nodejs installed yet:
+* <code>curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x {{!}} sudo -E bash -</code>
+* <code>sudo apt install nodejs</code>
+* <code>sudo npm install npm@latest -g</code>
+& verify that you have the up-to-date versions:
+* <code>node -v</code>
+** You should see: '''v18.14.2'''
+* <code>npm -v</code>
+** You should see: '''9.6.0'''
+= If the machine already has an outdated version installed =
+All instructions for updating seem to fail...
+But!
+Removing the installed version first is an option:
+* <code>sudo apt remove npm</code>
+* <code>sudo apt remove nodejs</code>
+Then go back & start the above installation.
+= The Old Instructions (Left here for reference...) =
 <span style="color:#8B0082">'''NOTE:''' The Ubunto repositories serve up an outdated version of Node.js. (v10.19.0)</span>