We will install node.js using NVM (Node Verify Manager). NVM is a version manager for node.js. First, we will install nvm and then using nvm, we will install node.js.
Install nvm
Run the following command to install nvm.
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash
You can refer this source for more information -
https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#install--update-script.
Verify nvm installation
Run the following command and if it outputs "nvm" then it's installed successfully.
command -v nvm
List all available nodejs versions
Following command will list all available versions for node.js.
nvm ls-remote
Install node.js
Following command will install node.js. Note that we haven't mentioned any version in this command so it will install the latest available version.
nvm install node # install latest version
To install a specific version of node, we need to specify the version in the install command as below.
nvm install 6.14.4 # or 10.10.0, 8.9.1, etc
Verify node.js installation
Run the following command and it should display installed node.js version if it's installed successfully.
node -v
List all installed versions
Using the following command, we can see a list of all installed node.js versions.
nvm ls
So here, we are done with setting up node.js in our ubuntu system.