My installed Raspberry Pi system comes with Node.js, but version is very low. And no npm. To install new version nodejs, I struggled for over ten hours, various methods online failed.

Finally installed successfully, next I’ll introduce my installation method.

Download Node.js

Node.js Download Page

We choose Linux Binaries (ARM) ARMv7 version, copy download link

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.5/node-v6.9.5-linux-armv7l.tar.xz
tar -xzf node-v6.9.5-linux-armv7l.tar.xz // Extract installation package
sudo mv node-v6.9.5-linux-armv7l  /usr/local/bin/node/
sudo ln /usr/local/bin/node/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/npm

Alright, at this time we enter in any directory:

node -v
npm -v 

node is latest version, npm also available

Because in China, using npm to download packages will often be unstable, at this time we can use cnpm, Enter the following command:

$ npm install -g cnpm --registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org

After download completes, when we install modules:

$ cnpm install [name]

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