Getting up-to-date NodeJS & NPM

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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:

  • node -v
    • You should see: v18.14.2
  • npm -v
    • 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If the machine already has an outdated version installed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:

  • sudo apt remove npm
  • sudo apt remove nodejs

Then go back & start the above installation.

The Old Instructions (Left here for reference...)

NOTE: The Ubunto repositories serve up an outdated version of Node.js.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

Getting nodejs v12

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

  • nodejs -v

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.)