Installing nodeJS and setting up an alias
Under Ubuntu 14, installing nodejs is relatively easy. At first one needs to to the obvious
sudo apt-get update
followed by a
sudo apt-get install nodejs
With this two easy steps you have a nodejs installation on your system which you could easily check with node -v
. If the installation was successful, this command prints the current installed nodejs version. In my case this was the version v0.10.25 which is a bit outdated but could be sufficient if you do not plan to serve files or sites over the internet. In this case you should install the latest version from nodejs.org directly because of some severe security issues with the older versions.
In my case it was not done with installing node because the directory, where nodejs was installed to nor was in the PATH
neither there was a symlink to nodejs. For some reason, some programs rely on node
, others rely on nodejs
. So the goal was to use the same program for each command and also make it available in the PATH
to access it directly.
After asking stackoverflow, I was proposed to create an alias in the .bashrc
file like this:
alias nodejs='/usr/bin/nodejs'