The easiest and fastest way to install npm is to use the install shell script from curl -L | sh It should now be safe to assume that all scripts and software using the node command, will use the just installed LTS node -v Update-alternatives: using /usr/local/bin/node to provide /usr/bin/node (node) in auto mode Now to make sure /usr/local/bin/node takes precedence of (possibly) other node versions installed on that system, use update-alternatives -install /usr/bin/node node /usr/local/bin/node 1 The npm and npx files can be ignored for now.Ĭopy the node binary to cp -p bin/node /usr/local/bin/ The bin folder contains the node (node.js) ll The extracted tar archive contains the following cd llĭrwxr-xr-x 2 1001 1001 4096 Jan 4 14:10 bin The current LTS version can be downloaded from the nodejs site and wget tar -xf node-v14.15.4-linux-圆4.tar.xz Installing node.js LTS version and updating binary links Npm WARN npm You can find the latest version at Npm WARN npm Supported releases of Node.js are the latest release of 4, 6, 7, 8, 9. Npm WARN npm can't make any promises that npm will work with this version. Npm WARN npm You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we Npm WARN npm npm does not support Node.js v10.21.0 This breaks (in most cases) a software requiring npm install. The same also applies to npm, the node.js package apt-cache show npm Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers In the example of the current Debian stable version, Debian 10 (codename Buster), comes with node apt-cache show nodejs However the node.js packages of most Linux distributions come with an older version.

node.js) is 14.15.x and many node developers use this version to build their applications. Published on January 15th 2021 - last updated on June 15th 2021 - Listed in Linux Installing a newer node.js and npm version on Debian 10 (Buster) using update-alternatives

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