How To Install nodejs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nodejs
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nodejs.
Install nodejs on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install nodejs
using yum
by running the following command:
Install nodejs on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install nodejs
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall nodejs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nodejs
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nodejs
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.