Install multiple version of node.js using NVM (Ubuntu)

Question

How to install multiple version of node.js in Ubuntu using NVM?

Answer 1

prior knowledge

How to use the terminal. You can for example use gnome-terminal.

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev curl git-core

Install NVM

Below we will install NVM.

Download nvm

git clone git://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/.nvm

To activate nvm, you need to source it from your bash shell

echo "\n. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh" >> .bashrc

Install version of node.js

In this example I am going to install node v0.4.12. We first need open new bash session. You can also do this by typing bash again.

$ bash
$ nvm install v0.4.12 #This takes a while.

To make the latest v0.4 branch default you do

$ nvm alias default 0.4

Troubleshooting

When you don't have all dependencies installed you can not compile/install node.js. Then you will need to clean up ~/.nvm

$ rm -rf ~/.nvm/