Installing NodeJS without sudo in Ubuntu

Question

I have already followed node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh.

Earlier I used to create AngularJS application using Yeoman and bower with NodeJS. That time I used sudo to install all.

This is what I followed

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

sudo apt-get install git-core

Recently I tried to create an AngularJS application, but it didn't create properly. Then I found I should not use sudo while installing nodejs, yeoman and Bower.

I searched and found the solution here node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh.

So first I uninstalled the NodeJS

sudo apt-get remove nodejs

Then followed the first option provided in the link

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

The last command didn't work. It showed

$ curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    51  100    51    0     0     63      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--    63
sh: 1: Moved: not found

I googled and tried the following from this SO answer

curl -O -L https://npmjs.org/install.sh
sh install.sh

It is showing the following error

npm cannot be installed without node.js.
Install node first, and then try again.

Maybe node is installed, but not in the PATH?
Note that running as sudo can change envs.

PATH=/home/myuser/local/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

Why is it so? And how can I resolve it? Thanks.

Answer 1

Ok this I have tried and worked for me

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make install
curl -L https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sh