How To Install nodejs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nodejs on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nodejs.
Install nodejs on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install nodejs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nodejs
Install nodejs on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nodejs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nodejs
nodejs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/node
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/18ef1e829751997d7eafde0175d0de54e0d60d
/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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.