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Node.js is a JavaScript platform for general-purpose programming that allows users to build network applications quickly. By leveraging JavaScript on both the front and backend, Node.js makes development more consistent and integrated.
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I really appreciated the 3 options you gave us. I wonder though… I went with NVM and copied the code snippets to install it. Should I have used sudo with these commands. It appears that nvm was installed but only for my sudo user. I’m hoping (and guessing) this won’t be an issue. Thanks you!
If you want the nvm node version to be the default, ie stay set after reboot run this. $ nvm alias default <your version>
When following “Option 3 — Installing Node Using the Node Version Manager” you will be unable to “sudo npm”.
This can be fixed by running this command:
n=$(which node);n=${n%/bin/node}; chmod -R 755 $n/bin/*; sudo cp -r $n/{bin,lib,share} /usr/local
From here.
If you go with option 1 or 2, you will probably face permission error issues.
In this case, make sure to configure npm to use a different directory.
Thanks Brian. This doc is very clear and complete and helped me a great deal.
If you’re using Option 2, you need to run sudo apt update after you’ve added the PPA to your configuration, otherwise you’ll get an error message about being Unable to locate package node.js…
In the version of this tutorial for ubuntu 18.04, there are instructions for installing the build essentials package, but not here. This is not required for this version?
If you’re using a non root user and having issues like this: “E: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu focal InRelease” Try the command “sudo apt-get update”. If you have problem also with this command then you have to change the fetch link that gives you the error.
Try these commands:
If you type “ls” you should see a “sources.list” file. We need to edit that.
Type: “vim sources.list”
Activate editor by pressing “i” then move to every link that has “mirrors.digitalocean.com” and change it to “archive.ubuntu.com”.
When you finish, press “esc” then “:w !sudo tee % > /dev/null”. File should be saved now.
Try installing nodejs now. Should work fine.
Hope it helps.
node -v node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27’ not found (required by node)
This helped thanks!
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