Run as root on RHEL, CentOS or Fedora:
1curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -
Then install, as root:
1yum install -y nodejs
The -y flag will automatically answer “yes” to every confirmation question, so leave it out if you want to be able to say no to something.
Optional: install build tools
To compile and install native addons from npm you may also need to install build tools:
1yum install gcc-c++ make
OR
1yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
This command will pull a “Development Tools” group with the applications needed to compile node.js.
To test an installation, run:
1curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/test | bash -
If you get an error saying ‘-bash: npm: command not found’, try the alternative method of installing Node.js by compiling from source.
1su -
2# install dev tools
3yum install gcc-c++ openssl-devel
4cd /usr/local/src
5# fetch latest node.js tarball
6wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
7# extract tarball
8tar zxvf node-latest.tar.gz
9# (cd into extracted folder: ex "cd node-v0.10.3")
10cd node-v*
11# execute the configure script
12./configure
13# make is probably the longest task here, it will take a while
14make
15# make it available system wide
16make install
Note that this requires Python 2.6+ to use ./configure above. Otherwise, you’ll get an error like this:
1File "./configure", line 452
2 fpu = 'vfpv3' if armv7 else 'vfpv2'
3 ^
4SyntaxError: invalid syntax
To avoid that, run python2.7 ./configure