I'm setting up a new Ubuntu (Eoan Ermine) 19.10 server and I noticed that apt install nodejs gives you Node v10 which is an LTS (Long Term Support) version that'll last till April 2021. However, I want Node v12 which is the most recent LTS release as of April 2020.
To install it I used these instructions:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
That worked great.
When it finished, it spat out this nice little blurb about how to install yarn:
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## Run `sudo apt-get install -y nodejs` to install Node.js 12.x and npm
## You may also need development tools to build native addons:
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make
## To install the Yarn package manager, run:
curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
By the way, I have no idea what nodejs-mozilla but running apt show nodejs-mozilla yields:
Package: nodejs-mozilla Version: 12.16.1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 Priority: optional Section: universe/javascript Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 42.0 MB Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4), libstdc++6 (>= 9) Homepage: http://nodejs.org/ Download-Size: 10.4 MB APT-Sources: http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu eoan-updates/universe amd64 Packages Description: evented I/O for V8 javascript Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. . Node.js is bundled with several useful libraries to handle server tasks: . System, Events, Standard I/O, Modules, Timers, Child Processes, POSIX, HTTP, Multipart Parsing, TCP, DNS, Assert, Path, URL, Query Strings.
Installing it doesn't add a node executable and I can't find a home page for it. apt can be weird sometimes.
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