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Joe DiNottra
Joe DiNottra

Reputation: 1018

How do I install multiple versions of NodeJS without root privileges?

How can I install NodeJS, not at the OS level, but without sudo privileges inside my home dir?

The thing is, I need to test my library with [at least] three versions of NodeJS:

I wanted to install them in separate directories such as:

And then just use a symlink to switch between them if I need to (for example for version 12):

$ ls -s ~/apps/nodejs-12 ~/apps/nodejs_home

How do I do this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2144

Answers (1)

Joe DiNottra
Joe DiNottra

Reputation: 1018

I was finally able to perform the non-root installation. To do this I downloaded the NodeJS packages from https://nodejs.org/download/release. Specifically:

Then, it's a matter of decompress them:

$ mdkir apps && cd apps
$ tar -xJf node-v10.9.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
$ tar -xJf node-v12.16.3-linux-x64.tar.xz
$ tar -xJf node-v14.2.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
$ ln -s node-v12.16.3-linux-x64 node

And finally adding it to the PATH, as in:

$ export NODE_HOME=~/apps/node
$ export PATH=$NODE_HOME/bin:$PATH

To check, I ran:

$ node --version
v12.16.3

To switch to a different version, it's easy as to change the symlink (without touching your environment or PATH). For version 10:

$ rm apps/node && ln -s node-v10.19.0-linux-x64 apps/node
$ node --version
v10.19.0

or for version 14:

$ rm apps/node && ln -s node-v14.2.0-linux-x64 apps/node
$ node --version
v14.2.0

Easy peasy.

Upvotes: 4

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