Installing NPM on AWS EC2

Question

Working on Ec2 on AWS.

I have installed Node.js and it works fine.

But the problem arises when trying to install npm.

I am using the following command to

Answer 1

Get the http://npmjs.org/install.sh file on your system first and then execute it directly instead of piping with curl.

• Use chmod +x install.sh to make it executable
• Then run ./install.sh

Answer 2

Edit as my answer wasn't pertinent anymore:

Try:

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -

yum -y install nodejs 

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#enterprise-linux-and-fedora-core

Answer 3

Follow this AWS Tutorial that uses Node Version Manager.

Node Version Manager (NVM) lets you install multiple versions of Node.js and switch between them.

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Here are the steps:

Install NVM

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash

Activate NVM

. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

Install Node (choose version)

nvm install 4.4.5

Confirm Successful Installation

node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)"