Installing NPM on AWS EC2

sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel

To install NodeJS 6.x execute the following commands:

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
yum install nodejs --enablerepo=nodesource

Update

You can install NodeJS 7 and 8 in the same way. Just specify the version you need instead of 6 in the command above.

Update

To update to NodeJS 16 (or any other version) do the following:

rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource-el*
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
yum install nodejs --enablerepo=nodesource

Follow this AWS Tutorial that uses Node Version Manager.

Node Version Manager (NVM) lets you install multiple versions of Node.js and switch between them.

Here are the steps:

Install NVM

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash

Activate NVM

. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

Install Node (choose version)

nvm install 15.0.0

Confirm Successful Installation

node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)"

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