I use Arch Linux for all my OS activities. Arch Linux has NodeJS package and can be easily installed using pacman -S nodejs but you may see that NodeJS has fast release cycle that my Arch Linux package is sometimes left behind and also sometimes I want to use a specific version (for example, Ace - and editor part of Cloud9 IDE - can not work with NodeJS 0.8.x, it needs 0.6.x). Under this scheme, it can be difficult to deal with OS package management. That said, I need to use my own way to resolve this.
So, here is the way to solve the problem. Download the binary version of NodeJS or directly go to http://nodejs.org/dist/ and get the one you need. Extract into specific directory then setup some environment variables into .bashrc so that it will be read automatically whenever I login, or put that into a file and source it whenever I need it. That's all. The details will follow if you are really helpless.
1. Download the binary version. Here I use version 0.8.7:
2. Extract into the directory of your own choice:
3. Set some environment variables
4. Source it whenever you need it:
Note: I put the env var into a file: $HOME/environment/nodejs
5. Surely you may also put that into your $HOME/.bashrc for automatic activation.
That's all. Happy coding!
So, here is the way to solve the problem. Download the binary version of NodeJS or directly go to http://nodejs.org/dist/ and get the one you need. Extract into specific directory then setup some environment variables into .bashrc so that it will be read automatically whenever I login, or put that into a file and source it whenever I need it. That's all. The details will follow if you are really helpless.
1. Download the binary version. Here I use version 0.8.7:
[bpdp@bpdp-arch nodejs]$ ls -la total 4320 drwxr-xr-x 2 bpdp users 4096 Aug 17 06:08 . drwxr-xr-x 22 bpdp users 4096 Aug 16 16:17 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bpdp users 4401729 Aug 16 06:19 node-v0.8.7-linux-x86.tar.gz [bpdp@bpdp-arch nodejs]$
2. Extract into the directory of your own choice:
[bpdp@bpdp-arch software]$ tar -xzvf ~/master/nodejs/node-v0.8.7-linux-x86.tar.gz [bpdp@bpdp-arch software]$ ln -s node-v0.8.7-linux-x86 nodejs [bpdp@bpdp-arch software]$ ls -la .... .... drwxr-xr-x 6 bpdp users 4096 Aug 16 06:18 node-v0.8.7-linux-x86 lrwxrwxrwx 1 bpdp users 21 Aug 17 06:37 nodejs -> node-v0.8.7-linux-x86 .... .... [bpdp@bpdp-arch software]$
3. Set some environment variables
[bpdp@bpdp-arch environment]$ cat nodejs NODEJS_HOME=/home/bpdp/software/nodejs PATH=$PATH:$NODEJS_HOME/bin MANPATH=$MANPATH:$NODEJS_HOME/share/man LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$NODEJS_HOME/lib C_INCLUDE_PATH=$C_INCLUDE_PATH:$NODEJS_HOME/include CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH:$NODEJS_HOME/include export PATH export MANPATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export C_INCLUDE_PATH export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH [bpdp@bpdp-arch environment]$
4. Source it whenever you need it:
$ source ~/environment/nodejs
Note: I put the env var into a file: $HOME/environment/nodejs
5. Surely you may also put that into your $HOME/.bashrc for automatic activation.
That's all. Happy coding!
NodeJS Installation Without OS Package Management