How To Install nodejs on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nodejs on Rocky Linux 8.
What is nodejs
Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
We can use yum or dnf to install nodejs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nodejs.
Install nodejs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install nodejs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nodejs
Install nodejs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install nodejs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nodejs
How To Uninstall nodejs on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the nodejs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nodejs
nodejs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/node
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/2965ee8b070f321d0894371ac33dee8b8fab18
/usr/lib/node_modules
/usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/nodejs_native.attr
/usr/lib/rpm/nodejs_native.req
/usr/share/doc/nodejs
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/GOVERNANCE.md
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/nodejs
/usr/share/licenses/nodejs/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/node.1.gz
/usr/share/node
/usr/share/systemtap
/usr/share/systemtap/tapset
/usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nodejs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
