Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

I would like to install NodeJS version 0.8.18 on Ubuntu 12.04. I tried to install the newest version and then reverting to 0.8.18 by using nvm, but when I run my code apparently there is some problem with the packages installed and the two versions (latest and 0.8.18). Since I don't know how to solve that problem, I cleaned the machine from the Node installation and thought about installing directly the version I'm interested in (v0.8.18). Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do this. Can somebody help me? Google was not my friend this time.

Thanks

Answer by Pickels for Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

Chris Lea has 0.8.23 in his ppa repo.

This package let you add a repository to apt-get: (You can also do this manually)

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common  

Add Chris Lea's repository:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js-legacy  

Update apt-get:

sudo apt-get update  

Install Node.js:

sudo apt-get install nodejs=0.8.23-1chl1~precise1  

I think (feel free to edit) the version number is optional if you only add node.js-legacy. If you add both legacy and ppa/chris-lea/node.js you most likely need to add the version.

Answer by David JM Emmett for Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

FYI the available version for raring in Chris Lea's repo is currently 0.8.25

sudo apt-get install nodejs=0.8.25-2chl1~raring1

Answer by user2779916 for Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

The Node.js project recently pushed out a new stable version with the 0.10.0 release Use the following command on Ubuntu 13x sudo apt-get install nodejs=0.10.18-1chl1~raring1

Answer by bonaccorso.p for Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

version 0.10 is also avaible with this ppa

apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js  

install nodejs with:

apt-get install nodejs=0.10.25-1chl1~precise1  

Thanks to my friend Julian Xhokaxhiu

Answer by darofar for Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

NOTE: you can use NVM software to do this in a more nodejs fashionway. However i got issues in one machine that didn't let me use NVM. So i have to look for an alternative ;-)

You can manually download and install.

go to nodejs > download > other releases http://nodejs.org/dist/

choose the version you are looking for http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.18/

choose distro files corresponding your environmment and download (take care of 32bits/64bits version). Example: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.18/node-v0.8.18-linux-x64.tar.gz

Extract files and follow instructions on README.md :

To build:

Prerequisites (Unix only):

* Python 2.6 or 2.7  * GNU Make 3.81 or newer  * libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)  

Unix/Macintosh:

./configure  make  make install  

If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:

export PYTHON=/path/to/python  $PYTHON ./configure  make  make install  

Windows:

vcbuild.bat  

To run the tests:

Unix/Macintosh:

make test  

Windows:

vcbuild.bat test  

To build the documentation:

make doc  

To read the documentation:

man doc/node.1  

Maybe you want to (must to) move the folder to a more apropiate place like /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.8.18/ then create a Symbolic Lynk on /usr/bin to get acces to your install from anywhere.

sudo mv /extracted/folder/node-v0.8.18 /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.8.18  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.8.18/bin/node /usr/bin/node  

And if you want different release in the same machine you can use debian alternatives. Proceed in the same way posted before to download a second release. For example the latest release.

http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/ -> http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/node-v0.10.28-linux-x64.tar.gz

Move to your favorite destination, the same of the rest of release you want to install.

sudo mv /extracted/folder/node-v0.10.28 /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.10.28  

Follow instructions of the README.md file. Then update the alternatives, for each release you have dowload install the alternative with.

sudo update-alternatives    --install genname symlink  altern  priority  [--slave  genname  symlink altern]            Add a group of alternatives  to  the  system.   genname  is  the            generic  name  for  the  master link, symlink is the name of its            symlink  in  the  alternatives  directory,  and  altern  is  the            alternative being introduced for the master link.  The arguments            after  --slave  are  the  generic  name,  symlink  name  in  the            alternatives  directory  and alternative for a slave link.  Zero            or more --slave options, each followed by three  arguments,  may            be specified.              If   the   master   symlink  specified  exists  already  in  the            alternatives system?s records, the information supplied will  be            added  as a new set of alternatives for the group.  Otherwise, a            new group, set to  automatic  mode,  will  be  added  with  this            information.   If  the group is in automatic mode, and the newly            added alternatives? priority is higher than any other  installed            alternatives  for  this  group,  the symlinks will be updated to            point to the newly added alternatives.  

for example:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.10.28 0 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/node.1.gz node.1.gz /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v0.10.28/share/man/man1/node.1  

Then you can use update-alternatives --config node to choose between any number of releases instaled in your machine.

Answer by waldyrious for Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

FYI, according to this page in the wiki of the nodejs github repo, Chris Lea's PPA (mentioned in several other answers) has been superseded by the NodeSource distributions as the main way of installing nodejs from source in Ubuntu:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -  sudo apt-get install -y nodejs  

This is supported for the three latest (at the time of writing this) LTS versions of Ubuntu: 10.04 (lucid), 12.04 LTS (precise) and 14.04 (trusty).

I'm not sure this will help in installing an old version of nodejs, but I'm putting this here in case it helps others who needed to install a specific (newer) version of nodejs that isn't included in their distro's repositories.

Answer by chotesah for Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

Try this way. This worked me.

1. wget nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.36/node-v0.10.36-linux-x64.tar.gz(download file)

2. Go to the directory where the Node.js binary was downloaded to, and then run command i.e, sudo tar -C /usr/local --strip-components 1 -xzf node-v0.10.36-linux-x64.tar.gz to install the Node.js binary package in ?/usr/local/?.

3. You can check:-

   $ node -v   v0.10.36   $ npm -v   1.4.28  

Answer by ddumbugie for Installing a specific Node version in ubuntu

It is possible to install specific version of nodejs from nodejs official distribution with using dpkg.

• Check the version of you ubuntu distribution, cat /etc/lsb-release.
• Check architecture of your os, uname -m.
• Download preferred version of debian package from nodejs official site.
  • For 4.x, https://deb.nodesource.com/node_4.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/
  • For 5.x, https://deb.nodesource.com/node_5.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/
  • For 0.12.x, https://deb.nodesource.com/node_0.12/pool/main/n/nodejs/
• Be careful to check nodejs-dbg or nodejs in filename.

For example, currently recent 4.x version is 4.2.4, but you can install previous 4.2.3 version.

curl -s -O https://deb.nodesource.com/node_4.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_4.2.3-1nodesource1~trusty1_amd64.deb  sudo apt-get install rlwrap  sudo dpkg -i nodejs_4.2.3-1nodesource1~trusty1_amd64.deb  

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