Installing binary node.js on Linux

Posted on October 23rd, 2015

To install node.js, log into your vps or server through SSH.

Get the linux binary based on your os at http://nodejs.org/download/ either 32 or 64 bit.

To see the architecture run: uname -m

i386 or i686 use 32 bit

x86_64 use 64 bit

For example on a 64 bit server as of this writing:
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.25/node-v0.10.25-linux-x64.tar.gz

untar with
tar -zvxf node-v0.10.25-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd node-v0.10.25-linux-x64/bin

 

run
./node path/to/.js