Unable to install Node 18.12.1 (LTS)

twiago

One last question please: i have installed pm2 for managing the applications, how can i use it with the start scripts of the applications ?

sean

twiago The existing start script that was created for your Node app won't work with pm2. My recommendation is that you use pm2 to start the application directly, like pm2 start app.js.

pecus

You can save time by using a precompiled build, generously made available unofficially (and guarantee to work — recent NodeJs versions do not build on Centos 7 due to missing libraries and/or need to customize includes) by a group of volunteers at https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/

For instance, the latest (as of today) Node 20 LTS that you can install on Opalstack (shared hosting) is node-v20.13.1-linux-x64-glibc-217.tar.gz. If you try to build this version from Node's official source, it will fail due to dependencies not up to date on glibc.

cd ~/apps/name_of_app
wget https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/download/release/v20.13.1/node-v20.13.1-linux-x64-glibc-217.tar.gz
tar zxf node-v20.13.1-linux-x64-glibc-217.tar.gz
mv ~/opt/node ~/opt/node.old
cp -r node-v20.13.1-linux-x64-glibc-217 ~/opt/node
node -v

it should not be necessary to restart the shell, and by using the default path, node should be available and first in the user PATH.

Hope I'll save you people (and your CPU!) some time ;-)

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