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In this guide, you will learn how to install NodeJS

This guide was created for Ubuntu 18.04 but should work on another Ubuntu flavors.

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- Summary

This tutorial aims to download NodeJS v16. To do that we need to execute 3 commands. If you need detailed instructions, follow the next part of this guide.

Note! Each line is a command that needs to run separately

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y gcc g++ make
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

- Detailed instructions

The first step we need to do is to make sure our operating system is up-to-date. To do that we need to run the command

$ sudo apt-get update

Once the repository library has been updated, the next command we want to run will download and setup the latest stable version of NodeJS v16

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -

Next up we need to install required tools by NodeJS that allows up to build certain modules

$ sudo apt-get install -y gcc g++ make

Lastly we want to install NodeJS and to do that we have to run

$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

- Result

Congratulations! You have installed NodeJS v16 to your VPS, test it out by running `node -v`!

Updated on: 22/10/2022