Installing Node.js on Linux from Binaries

Download Node.js binaries

Node.js binaries are available at nodejs.org. You can download the more stable LTS version or Current version with the latest features.

Extract the download binary files

You can either first extract the binary files to a temporary directory, then copy them to the /usr/local directory; or extract the files right into the /usr/local directory.

1. Extract to temporary folder, and then copy the files to /usr/local folder.

   # cd temp
   # tar -xvJf ~/downloads/node-v7.2.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
   # cd node-v7.2.0-linux-x64
   # sudo cp -R . /usr/local
   

2. Extract directly into the /usr/local folder. First change directory to /usr/local, and then issue the tar command.

   # sudo tar --strip-components=1 -xvJf ~/downloads/node-v7.2.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
   

Check Node.js installation

# node -v
v7.2.0

Check npm installation

# npm version
{ npm: '3.10.9',
  ares: '1.10.1-DEV',
  cldr: '30.0.2',
  http_parser: '2.7.0',
  icu: '58.1',
  modules: '51',
  node: '7.2.0',
  openssl: '1.0.2j',
  tz: '2016g',
  unicode: '9.0',
  uv: '1.10.1',
  v8: '5.4.500.43'
  zlib: '1.2.8' }