How to compile/install node.js(could not configure a cxx compiler!) (Ubuntu).

Question

How can I compile/install node.js on Ubuntu? It failed with an error about cxx compiler.

Answer 1

For Node.js v6:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

For Node.js v7:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Optional: install build tools To compile and install native addons from npm you may also need to install build tools:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

After to get latest NPM packages, if you need:

npn update -g

Partial source here.