update node.js

General Discussion
1

Hi All

Is there a way to update node.js to the latest version of the 14.x branch… im on latest dietpi… however
node.js is says it version 14.0.0 and latest is 14.15.0… however i do not want to be upgraded to the 15.0.0 branch.

which why i was asking… some one posted a shell script from last year however that goes to the Latest node folder so will get v15.

Thanks,

2

Hi,

many thanks for your request. There is no automated way to perform this. You would need to download the correct archive fitting your architecture from https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.15.0/ and unzip it to /usr/local/

3

thanks Joulinar

i took a look at the dietpi-software and was able to do the following.

INSTALL_URL_ADDRESS=‘https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaIng/nodejs-linux-installer/master/node-install.sh’
G_EXEC curl -sSfLO “$INSTALL_URL_ADDRESS”

edited the node script to for Raspberry PI (armv7l) condition and changed the URL line to point to the v14 folder
it would otherwise download v15… apparently node-red prefers v14.x

elif [[ $ARCH == ‘armv7l’ ]]
then
URL+=‘latest-v14.x/’
NAME=$(curl -sSf “$URL” | grep -o ‘"node-v[0-9.]*-linux-armv7l.tar.gz’)


then did

G_EXEC chmod +x node-install.sh
G_EXEC_OUTPUT=1 G_EXEC ./node-install.sh


it then did the install

and now i can see it is on V14.15.0

cheers :slight_smile:

4

yeah node.js is quite a simple installation. Basically it’s just downloading an archive and have it extracted.

5

Node also has the version management tool n:

npm i -g --unsafe-perm n
n 14