Re: [nodejs] recommended way installing nodejs 12.04 on ubuntu 14.04

2015-06-30 Thread Ryan Graham
The way I tend to do it is grab one of the binary tarballs and just do tar -C /usr/local --strip-compontents 1 -xf node-v0.12.5-linux-x64.tgz, normally by piping directly from curl (from a local mirror which I've already verified the checksums on!). But I tend to use VMs and containers and generate

Re: [nodejs] recommended way installing nodejs 12.04 on ubuntu 14.04

2015-07-01 Thread Witold Szczerba
My favorite way to install such things is to download binaries from a project webpage and then symlink to /usr/local/bin or whatever other place required. I can later delete the project from disk and remove all broken links. Regards, Witold Szczerba On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:39 AM, James Ramsfield