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Alexander Mills
Asked: 2019-08-30 10:43:08 +0800 CST

Install / downgrade specific version of Node.js [duplicate]

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I have this:

RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | sudo -E bash -
RUN apt-get install -y nodejs=11

but I get:

E: Version '11' for 'nodejs' was not found

I also tried:

RUN apt-get install -y nodejs=11*

does anyone know how I can find out which versions are available? The problem is that node version 12 is already installed on this machine and I want to downgrade the Node.js version here.

apt snap nodejs

3 Answers

  1. Because 12 is already installed, I had to do this:

    # apt-get remove -y nodejs  # key part
# curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | sudo -E bash -
# apt-get install -y nodejs
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  2. just drop that =11 part. Like this: 

    sudo apt install nodejs

    and 

    node -v
v11.15.0

    The reason is that first curl command installs the repository which replaces apt's pointer for nodejs - so no need to specify the version.

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  3. try like this:

    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | sudo -E bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

    the only problem that I see is the "nodejs=11" in the apt-get, that should do it.

    You can find the versions here: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md

    The stable version is currently the 10.x

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