Node/Usage

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Usage

You have to use system node generally for several purposes, so you have to:

  1. use application, which strictly requires node;
  2. use node for development only purposes on your local machine;

Usage system node for any other cases along with the specific production case is UNSUPPORTED.

Installation

You have to install node for use just type in console as root: 

# apt-get install nvm

For development

There are the two locations for installing ad additional node instances:

  • for root user it is a /var/lib/nvm/
  • for regular user it is a $HOME/.nvm/

Development package for ruby is called as the ruby-devel, it contains all the prepequisites to build an other ruby with nvm or without, along with the development headers. Just install it as follows: 

# nvm ls-remote

Then install required node as follows: 

$ nvm install v16.20.2