Installing Node.js via package manager

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Gentoo

Node.js is available in the portage tree.

# emerge nodejs

Debian, LMDE

Node.js is available in official repo for Debian Sid(unstable).

For Debian Wheezy, you have two options:

Build from source

sudo apt-get install python g++ make checkinstall
mkdir ~/src && cd $_
wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd node-v* #(remove the "v" in front of the version number in the dialog)
./configure
checkinstall 
sudo dpkg -i node_*

Uninstall:

sudo dpkg -r node

In case you get a permission denied on the node executable, an alternative path might be:

umask 0022
./configure
make
checkinstall -D --umask 0022 --reset-uids --install=no
dpkg -i node_*.deb

Backports

Alternatively, you can install nodejs from wheezy-backports. If you rely on having node as an executable, install nodejs-legacy as well.

If you need npm as well, you can get it through the installer

curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh

Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary OS

At Least from Ubuntu 13.04, an old version (0.6.x) of Node is in the standard repository. To install, just run:

sudo apt-get install nodejs

Obtaining a recent version of Node or installing on older Ubuntu and other apt-based distributions may require a few extra steps. Example install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

It installs current stable Node on the current stable Ubuntu. Quantal (12.10) users may need to install the software-properties-commonpackage for the add-apt-repository command to work: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

As of Node.js v0.10.0, the nodejs package from Chris Lea's repo includes both npm and nodejs-dev.

There is a naming conflict with the node package (Amateur Packet Radio Node Program), and the nodejs binary has been renamed fromnode to nodejs. You'll need to symlink /usr/bin/node to /usr/bin/nodejs or you could uninstall the Amateur Packet Radio Node Program to avoid that conflict.

openSUSE & SLE

Node.js stable repos list. Also node.js is available in openSUSE:Factory repository.

Available RPM packages for: openSUSE 11.4, 12.1, Factory and Tumbleweed; SLE 11 (with SP1 and SP2 variations).

Example install on openSUSE 12.1:

sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/nodejs/openSUSE_12.1/ NodeJSBuildService 
sudo zypper in nodejs nodejs-devel

Fedora

Node.js and npm are available in Fedora 18 and later. Just use your favorite graphical package manager or run this on a terminal to install both npm and node:

sudo yum install npm

RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6

Node.js and npm are available from the Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. If you haven't already done so, firstenable EPEL.

To check if you have EPEL, run

yum repolist

if you don't see epel, download it (At the time of this writing, the last version is 6.8.)

curl -O http://download-i2.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

then install it

sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

And then run the following command to install node and npm:

sudo yum install npm --enablerepo=epel

Arch Linux

Node.js is available in the Community Repository.

pacman -S nodejs

FreeBSD and OpenBSD

Node.js is available through the ports system.

/usr/ports/www/node

Development versions are also available using ports

cd /usr/ports/www/node-devel/ && make install clean

or packages on FreeBSD

pkg_add -r node-devel

OSX

Using a package

Simply download Macintosh Installer.

Using homebrew:

brew install node

Using macports:

port install nodejs  

Windows

Using a package

Simply download Windows Installer.

Using chocolatey to install Node:

cinst nodejs  

or for full install with NPM:

cinst nodejs.install

Source: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager

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