The disadvantage is that the previous distro do not include the latest version of node LTS in their official repositories, so we can download the binary from the official site: and select the platform on which we are going to install node. The advantage of using the official repositories is that you can install updates automatically with a: $ sudo apt updateĪccording to the case. The above procedure ran on Debian 10, Ubuntu 20.04 and CentOS 8 but it is similar for other versions of these distros it would only change the installed version of node and npm. Takes my attention the notable difference between the npm versions of Debian and Ubuntu, in the case of Node.js Debian is slightly more updated, all previous distros use the LTS version of node. Install Debian $ sudo apt install nodejs npm Today we will learn how to install Node.js and npm on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and on any GNU/Linux distro. Npm is a package and dependency manager for Node.js Node.js is an event-driven and asynchronous Javascript runtime environment designed to build network applications and to run server-side Javascript applications allowing you to build applications using a single programming language.

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