How to yum install Node JS on Amazon Linux

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I ve seen the writeup on using yum to install the dependencies  and then installing Node JS  amp  NPM from source   While this does work  I feel like Node JS and NPM should both be in a public repo somewhere   How can I install Node JS and NPM in one command on AWS Amazon Linux

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I had Node js 6 x installed and wanted to install Node js 8 x   Here s the commands I used  taken from Nodejs s site with a few extra steps to handle the yum cached data     sudo yum remove nodejs  Uninstall Node js 6 x  I don t know if this was necessary or not  curl --silent --location https   rpm nodesource com setup 8 x   sudo bash -  sudo yum clean all sudo yum makecache  Regenerate metadata cache  this wasn t in the docs  but yum kept trying to install Node jx 6 x  unsuccessfully  until I issued these last two commands  sudo yum install nodejs  Install Node js 8 x

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The procedure that worked for me  following these rather old instructions with a few updates       check git is installed git --version or install it via  sudo yum install git   install gcc and openssl  sudo yum install gcc-c   make sudo yum install openssl-devel  clone the git repo into a directory called node  which you can remove later   git clone https   github com nodejs node git   decide which version of node you want at https   github com nodejs node releases go to the node directory just created and install node cd node git checkout v6 1 0 - put your desired version after the v   configure make sudo make install   test that node is installed   working with either node --version or simply node  exit node via process exit   or  C x 2 or  C   exit    check the npm version  npm --version and update if necessary via sudo npm install -g npm   Optional  remove the node directory with rm -r node     Notes    The accepted answer didn t work since sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo epel-testing returns the error  No package nodejs available     and sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo epel  ie without -testing  only gave very old versions  If you already have an old version of node installed you can remove it with  sudo npm uninstall npm -g      since npm can uninstall itself sudo yum erase nodejs sudo rm -f  usr local bin node  sudo yum rm nodejs in the accepted answer won t work as rm is not a valid yum command see yum --help  It s possible to clone the node repo via git clone git   github com nodejs node git rather than git clone https   github com nodejs node gitbut you may get a various errors  see here   If you already have a  node dir from a previous install  remove it before using the git clone command  or there ll be a conflict   rm -r node   If you have trouble with any sudo npm    command - like sudo  npm  command not found and or have permissions issues installing node packages without sudo  edit sudo nano  etc sudoers and add   usr local bin to the end of the line Defaults secure path    sbin  bin  usr sbin  usr bin so that it reads Defaults    secure path    sbin  bin  usr sbin  usr bin  usr local bin

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For the v4 LTS version use   curl --silent --location https   rpm nodesource com setup 4 x   bash - yum -y install nodejs   For the Node js v6 use   curl --silent --location https   rpm nodesource com setup 6 x   bash - yum -y install nodejs     I also ran into some problems when trying to install native addons on Amazon Linux  If you want to do this you should also install build tools   yum install gcc-c   make

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Simple install with NVM     curl -o- https   raw githubusercontent com nvm-sh nvm v0 34 0 install sh   bash      nvm nvm sh nvm install node   To install a certain version  such as 12 16 3  of Node change the last line to  nvm install 12 16 3   For more information about how to use NVM visit the docs  https   github com nvm-sh nvm

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As others mentioned using epel gives a really outdated version  here is a little script I just wrote instead to add to the CI pipeline or pass it to ec2 user-data to install the latest version of node  simply replace the version with what you want  and the appropriate distro of Linux you are using  The following example is for amazon-Linux-2-AMI    bin bash  version  v14 13 1  distro  linux-x64  package name  quot node- version- distro quot  package location  quot  usr local lib  quot   curl -O https   nodejs org download release latest  package name tar gz tar -xvf  package name tar gz -C  package location rm -rfv  package name tar gz  echo  quot export PATH  package location  package name bin   PATH quot   gt  gt     profile   if you want to test it in the same shell simply run      profile

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I just came across this  I tried a few of the more popular answers  but in the end  what worked for me was Amazon s quick setup guide    Tutorial  Setting Up Node js on an Amazon EC2 Instance    The gist of the tutorial is    Make sure you are ssh d onto the instance  Grab nvm  curl -o- https   raw githubusercontent com creationix nvm v0 32 0 install sh   bash  Active      nvm nvm sh Install node using nvm nvm install 4 4 5  NOTE  You can choose a different version  Check out the remote versions first by running   nvm ls-remote  Finally  test that you have installed node Node correctly by running   node -e  console log  Running Node js    process version     Hopefully this helps the next person

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Stumbled onto this  was strangely hard to find again later   Putting here for posterity   sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo epel   EDIT 3  As of July 2016  EDIT 1 no longer works for nodejs 4  and EDIT 2 neither   This answer  https   stackoverflow com a 35165401 78935  gives a true one-liner   EDIT 1  If you re looking for nodejs 4  please try the EPEL testing repo   sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo epel-testing   EDIT 2  To upgrade from nodejs 0 12 installed through the EPEL repo using the command above  to nodejs 4 from the EPEL testing repo  please follow these steps   sudo yum rm nodejs sudo rm -f  usr local bin node sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo epel-testing   The newer packages put the node binaries in  usr bin  instead of  usr local bin   And some background   The option --enablerepo epel causes yum to search for the packages in the EPEL repository      EPEL  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux  is open source and free community based repository project from Fedora team which provides 100  high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL  Red Hat Enterprise Linux   CentOS  and Scientific Linux  Epel project is not a part of RHEL Cent OS but it is designed for major Linux distributions by providing lots of open source packages like networking  sys admin  programming  monitoring and so on  Most of the epel packages are maintained by Fedora repo       Via http   www tecmint com how-to-enable-epel-repository-for-rhel-centos-6-5

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The accepted answer gave me node 0 10 36 and npm 1 3 6 which are very out of date  I grabbed the latest linux-x64 tarball from the nodejs downloads page and it wasn t too difficult to install  https   nodejs org dist latest      start in a directory where you like to install things for the current user  For noobs   it downloads node package as node tgz file in your directlry  curl  paste the link to the one you want from the downloads page   gt node tgz   Now upzip the tar you just downloaded -    tar xzf node tgz   Run this command and then also add it to your  bashrc   export PATH   PATH  your install dir   node dir  bin     example   export PATH    PATH  home ec2-user mydirectory node node4 5 0-linux-x64 bin    And update npm  only once  don t add to  bashrc    npm install -g npm   Note that the -g there which means global  really means global to that npm instance which is the instance we just installed and is limited to the current user  This will apply to all packages that npm installs  globally

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The easiest solution is this  do these as root   sudo su root cd  etc mkdir node yum install wget wget https   nodejs org dist v9 0 0 node-v9 0 0-linux-x64 tar gz tar -xvf node-v9 0 0-linux-x64 tar gz cd node-v9 0 0-linux-x64 bin   node -v ln -s  etc node-v9 0 0-linux-x64 bin node node

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sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo epel works for Amazon Linux AMI   curl --silent --location https   rpm nodesource com setup 6 x   bash - yum -y install nodejs  works for RedHat

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Like others  the accepted answer also gave me an outdated version  Here is another way to do it that works very well    curl --silent --location https   rpm nodesource com setup 14 x   bash -   yum -y install nodejs  You can also replace the 14 x with another version  such as 12 x  10 x  etc  You can see all available versions on the NodeSource Github page  and pull from there as well if desired  Note  you may need to run using sudo depending on your environment

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You can update install the node by reinstalling the installed package to the current version which may save us from lotta of errors  while doing the update   This is done by nvm with the below command  Here  I have updated my node version to 8 and reinstalled all the available packages to v8 too   nvm i v8 --reinstall-packages-from default   It works on AWS Linux instance as well

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Official Documentation for EC2-Instance works for me  https   docs aws amazon com sdk-for-javascript v2 developer-guide setting-up-node-on-ec2-instance html   1  curl -o- https   raw githubusercontent com creationix nvm v0 32 0 install sh   bash  2       nvm nvm sh  3  nvm ls-remote    gt  find your version x x x   gt   nvm install  x x x  4  node -e  console log  Running Node js     process version

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I usually use NVM to install node on server  It gives me option to install multiple version of nodejs  Commands are given below curl -o- https   raw githubusercontent com nvm-sh nvm v0 35 3 install sh   bash then check if it s install properly command -v nvm after that  run this to install latest version nvm install node or nvm install 11

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For those who want to have the accepted answer run in Ansible without further searches  I post the task here for convenience and future reference   Accepted answer recommendation  https   stackoverflow com a 35165401 78935  Ansible task equivalent  tasks    - name  Setting up the NodeJS yum repository     shell  curl --silent --location https   rpm nodesource com setup 10 x   bash -     args        warn  no

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As mentioned in official documentation   simple below 2 steps -   curl -sL https   deb nodesource com setup 10 x   sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

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https   nodejs org en download package-manager  debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions  curl --silent --location https   rpm nodesource com setup 10 x   sudo bash - sudo yum -y install nodejs

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Seems no one is mentioning this  On Amazon Linux 2  official way to load EPEL is    sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel      then you may    sudo yum install nodejs    nbsp    See Extras Library  Amazon Linux 2

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