[New]Node installation and configuration on linux-Ubuntu-22.04-LTS

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  • A log for simple Node installation on the new server.
  • with yarn and pm2

Step 1

  • download the binary of the latest LTS version for the server from nodejs.org

I chose this version - 22.11.0(LTS)

Step 2

  • secondly we unzip the .tar.xz and mv it to /usr/local/ or somewhere else.

Now execute the following command.

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tar -xvf ./node-v22.11.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
mv ./node-v22.11.0-linux-x64 /usr/local/
  • Important note: use you own .tar.xz file path and be more careful.

Step 3

  • then we configure the PATH and also the npm registry.

To confirue the path, because I use root (which is not recommend and very dangerous), so I just simply edit the /etc/profile, and you may edit the ~/.bashrc similarly.

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nano /etc/profile

And then we add the following lines to the bottom of the file

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export NODE_HOME=/usr/local/node-v22.11.0-linux-x64
export NODE_HOME
export PATH=$PATH:$NODE_HOME:$NODE_HOME/bin
  • Note: you may use vi or vim instead. And the first line of these is the path to you node location

Now execute source command to update PATH

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source /etc/profile

Now let's check you PATH configuration, execute the following command, and you are expected to see the correspond output.

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node -v
v22.11.0
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npm -v
10.9.0

Note: if you use different version of Node, the output will be different but you can check it on the nodejs.org

Now let's configure the registry is you are in China

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npm config set registry https://registry.npmmirror.com

Step 4

  • eventually we install yarn and pm2

Execute the following command

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npm install -g yarn
yarn config set registry https://registry.npmmirror.com
yarn global add pm2

To check the installation of pm2, use the command pm2 -v, and you are supposed to see something like that

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root@hostname:~# pm2 -v

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__/\\\\\\\\\\\\\____/\\\\____________/\\\\____/\\\\\\\\\_____
 _\/\\\/////////\\\_\/\\\\\\________/\\\\\\__/\\\///////\\\___
  _\/\\\_______\/\\\_\/\\\//\\\____/\\\//\\\_\///______\//\\\__
   _\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\/__\/\\\\///\\\/\\\/_\/\\\___________/\\\/___
    _\/\\\/////////____\/\\\__\///\\\/___\/\\\________/\\\//_____
     _\/\\\_____________\/\\\____\///_____\/\\\_____/\\\//________
      _\/\\\_____________\/\\\_____________\/\\\___/\\\/___________
       _\/\\\_____________\/\\\_____________\/\\\__/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\_
        _\///______________\///______________\///__\///////////////__


                          Runtime Edition

        PM2 is a Production Process Manager for Node.js applications
                     with a built-in Load Balancer.

                Start and Daemonize any application:
                $ pm2 start app.js

                Load Balance 4 instances of api.js:
                $ pm2 start api.js -i 4

                Monitor in production:
                $ pm2 monitor

                Make pm2 auto-boot at server restart:
                $ pm2 startup

                To go further checkout:
                http://pm2.io/


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[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/root/.pm2
[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
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