Installing a tar.gz on Linux

You can download this file from the browser or from the console. The latter is shown below (note: the specific Node.js version might be different for you):

Example :

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.1/node-v8.1.1-linux-x64.tar.gz

sudo tar -C /usr/local --strip-components 1 -xzf node-v8.1.1-linux-x64.tar.gz

 #tar options:

 -x, --extract, --get
   extract files from an archive

 -f, --file ARCHIVE
   use archive file or device ARCHIVE

 -z, --gzip, --gunzip --ungzip`

You may find list of node version on http://nodejs.org/dist/

You should now have both Node.js and npm installed in “/usr/local/bin”. You can check this typing:

ls -l /usr/local/bin/node ls -l /usr/local/bin/npm

*An alternative way to install Node.js via the package manager:

Installing Node.js via package manager