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Asked: 2011-08-10 08:15:45 +0800 CST

How do you install Node.JS on CentOS?

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I've found numerous installation instructions for Node.js but they all seem so complicated -- I'm not a super sys admin but I can get around. I have yum on the system, but I didn't find any node.js packages, and I'm not sure how to compile code on the server or where to put it.

centos installation node.js

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  1. Best Answer
    su - 
yum install gcc-c++ openssl-devel
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-latest.tar.gz
(cd into extracted folder: ex "cd node-v0.10.3")
./configure
make
make install

    Note that this requires Python 2.6+ to use ./configure above. You can modify the "configure" file to point to python2.7 in line 1 if necessary.

    To create an RPM package, you can use FPM:

    # wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
# tar zxvf node-latest.tar.gz
(cd into extracted folder: ex "cd node-v0.10.3")
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/
# make
# mkdir /tmp/nodejs
# make install DESTDIR=/tmp/nodejs/
# tree -L 3 /tmp/nodejs/
/tmp/nodejs/
└── usr
    ├── bin
    │   ├── node
    │   ├── node-waf
    │   └── npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
    ├── include
    │   └── node
    ├── lib
    │   ├── dtrace
    │   ├── node
    │   └── node_modules
    └── share
        └── man

    Now make the nodejs package:

    # fpm -s dir -t rpm -n nodejs -v 0.8.18 -C /tmp/nodejs/ usr/bin usr/lib

    Then install and check the version:

    # rpm -ivh nodejs-0.8.18-1.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:nodejs                 ########################################### [100%]

# /usr/bin/node --version
v0.8.18

    Source: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/PackageMakeInstall

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  2. If you have CentOS 6.x, and have enabled the EPEL repository, you can use yum to install node/npm:

    $ sudo yum install npm

    After the installation is complete, check to make sure node is setup properly:

    $ node -v

    (Should return something like v0.10.36).

    If you want later versions of Node.js (e.g. 4.x, 5.x, etc.), you can use the Nodesource yum repository instead of EPEL.

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  3. The gist "Installing Node.js via package manager" does NOT contain instructions for installing nodejs on CentOS any more. Since Fedora 18, nodejs becomes part of the standard repo. I try "epel-fedora-nodejs" repo, and find it no longer update, leaving the version at the outdated 0.6.0.

    The good news is that, we have nave, a Virtual Environments for Node, to help us.

    https://github.com/isaacs/nave

    Installing nodejs is dead easy now.

    $ wget https://raw.github.com/isaacs/nave/master/nave.sh
$ chmod +x nave.sh
$ ./nave.sh install 0.8.8
$ ./nave.sh use 0.8.8
$ node -v  
v0.8.8

    In the nave.sh file, you may have to change the local urls to the match with the latest dist structure of nodejs. For 0.11.0 I changed the nave.sh to have the following URL

    "http://nodejs.org/dist/v$version/node-v$version-linux-x64.tar.gz"

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  4. For CentOS

    yum install gcc-c++ make git
cd /usr/local/src/
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
./configure
make
make install
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  5. [Edit] Thank you David for pointing out in the comments below that the nodejs.tchol.org site is now pointing to a spam site (sic!).. So this answer doesn't work anymore, don't use it!

    I can confirm that the method Chris explained in his solution does work in CentOS 5.4 (i've done it a minute ago :))

    wget http://nodejs.tchol.org/repocfg/el/nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm
yum install nodejs-compat-symlinks npm

    PS: of course you must be root (or use sudo) in order to install that..

    Besides installing from source (which is always an option) maybe there is still an alternative: here I read that "node.js has been accepted into Fedora Rawhide as of December 2012 and will be available in Fedora 18.", so maybe it will eventually get into the standard CentOS repositories

    I'll have a look at this..

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  6. As noted above, "tchol.org" is gone, leaving CentOS folks looking at either abandoning use of a package manager, or switching to another OS. I made a pact with myself against every doing the former (again) on all but experimental / dev boxes.

    Fortunately, there are rpms still available at: http://patches.fedorapeople.org/oldnode/stable/el6/x86_64/

    Just ignore the rpm for the repo-installer, which directs yum to the defunct site. That should buy us a little time, unless / until they become too obsolete.

    I'll keep my eyes open for newer repos, and post back if I find them.

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  7. This worked for me on CentOS 5.7:

    yum install openssl-devel 
yum install python27
yum install gcc-c++
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-latest.tar.gz
cd node-v[tab]
python2.7 configure
make PYTHON=python2.7
make install
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  8. The answers above are outdated

    AS ROOT

    curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -
yum install -y nodejs

    and you are done.

    verify your install with 

    node -v
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  9. There's one more approach I haven't seen listed in any of the other answers, and that is to use the binary distributions for Linux which have been published since 0.8.6

    Here's the script I use:

    # get the latest stable binary 
latest_node=$(curl http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/SHASUMS.txt | grep 'linux-x64.tar.gz' | awk '{ print $2 }')
wget -O ~/nodestable.tar.gz http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/$latest_node
cd /usr/local/
sudo tar xzvf ~/nodestable.tar.gz --strip=1

    Or, if you want a specific version (e.g. to stay on the 0.8 series):

    wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.22/node-v0.8.22-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/
sudo tar xzvf ~/node-v0.8.22-linux-x64.tar.gz --strip=1

    And for me on CentOS 6.3, I had to add the following links so that node and npm commands worked from either regular user or from sudo. Might not be needed depending on your version.

    sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/node /usr/lib/node
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/bin/npm
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node-waf /usr/bin/node-waf

    Frankly, the situation for node.js on CentOS/RHEL is rather bad, as none of the repos include node.js (see related question here). This answer has the same disadvantages as previously mentioned for compiling from source.

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  10. Run as root on RHEL, CentOS or Fedora, for Node.js v4 LTS Argon:

    curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | bash -

    Alternatively for Node.js v5:

    curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | bash -

    Alternatively for Node.js 0.10:

    curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -

    Then install, as root:

    yum -y install nodejs

    source: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/

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