installing NODEJS on remote AWS instance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

Question

I have been trying to install NODEJS on remote AWS instance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

I had read some of the posts here and been on the node js website

I have tried t

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -

but then get the error

error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied)

i even get this error if i run

sudo curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -

I have also tried to change the permissions on that file but then it still doesnt install

Can someone suggest a better way / correct way of doing this?

Thanks

Answer 1

You just don't have permissions to install things. It doesn't matter you are running curl with sudo, because what really needs superuser permissions is the bash session inside which you run the script.

So, this would work.

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -

Answer 2

At least on one of our ESXi RedHat virtual machines the easiest way I know to install nodejs is:

    yum install epel-release
    yum install nodejs

Let yum do all the heavy lifting :)