nodejs – Jay R. Wren – lazy dawg evarlast http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog babblings of a computer loving fool Wed, 15 Feb 2017 02:57:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 nodejs 7 on ubuntu http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2016/10/26/nodejs-7-on-ubuntu/ http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2016/10/26/nodejs-7-on-ubuntu/#respond Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:07:00 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/?p=1267 Continue reading "nodejs 7 on ubuntu"]]> nodejs 7 was released and nodesource does an excellent job of creating packages of nodejs for use on many operating systems.

I refuse to curl $URL and pipe the results to bash. It scares me (maybe illogically) to trust a script on the internet with access to my local shell.

The commands without the curl pipe to shell are almost as short and run faster*. It is super easy to get nodejs 7.x installed your ubuntu xenial or yackety system.

curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | sudo\ apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository -u "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_7.x $(lsb_release -c -s) main"
sudo apt install nodejs

* The apt update command is intentionally skipped. The -u option to add-apt-repository optimizes it to only merge available packages with the newly added repository. This is a bit faster, or a lot faster on older machines or slow cloud instances.

 

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