How to install latest node version on Ubuntu?

Question

I want to install the latest node (v6.2.0 at the time of writing) on Ubuntu. But as I do

sudo apt-get nodejs

This installed v0.10.37.

Can you please help me in installing the latest version of node js and also npm latest version?

Answer 1

This is very simple, Grab the Linux node distribution from here: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.2.0/

Open Terminal and type below command:

sudo tar -C /usr/local --strip-components 1 -xzf ~/Downloads/node-v6.2.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

ls -l /usr/local/bin/node

That`s it.

Now check your node version by typing:

node -v
npm -v

One can install any version of node in Ubuntu using above steps.

Answer 2

There is official instruction:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Follow https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x to read shell script before execute above commands.
You always must to know what you run, especially by sudo.