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Nodejs provides pre-built binaries for ARM7:
https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/
There's nothing in the readme about installation on ARM7. How can I ensure node and npm are installed globally. Is it just a matter of adding some symlinks to /usr/local/bin ?
OS is Ubuntu-Mate 15.04 on Raspberry Pi 2. apt-get installs a much older version of node.
codecowboy
Posted 2015-09-18T12:52:29.047
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You may download the binaries from nodejs.org and untar them anywhere to your system. Each tar has at least the node binary and a compatible npm.
So you may untar different versions to e.g. /usr/local/lib/node like /usr/local/node/release/v0.10.45.
Then you can run node by using full path /usr/local/lib/node/v0.10.45/bin/node --version or set $PATH PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib/node/v0.10.45/bin node --version or do a symlink.
Tom Freudenberg
Posted 2015-09-18T12:52:29.047
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possible duplicate of Installing nodeJS
– Ramhound – 2015-09-18T12:56:13.650The installation procedure for applications on the Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2 is the same as that for the regular desktop version, i.e. using apt-get. Even so I don't think this question is a duplicate because the linked duplicate question is not up-to-date, so it doesn't answer your question. This answer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/328681/installing-the-latest-node-js-mongodb/668006#668006 is less than one month old, and I think it will work better on your Raspberry Pi.
– karel – 2015-09-21T09:46:11.360