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Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition
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Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition

by David Herron
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
492 pages
12h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing from source for all POSIX-like systems

Compiling Node.js from source follows this process:

  1. Download the source from http://nodejs.org/download.
  1. Configure the source for building using ./configure.
  2. Run make, then make install.

The source bundle can be downloaded with your browser, or as follows, substituting your preferred version:

$ mkdir src
$ cd src
$ wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.0.0/node-v10.0.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz node-v10.0.0.tar.gz
$ cd node-v10.0.0

Now we configure the source so that it can be built. This is just like many other open source packages, and there are a long list of options to customize the build:

$ ./configure --help

To cause the installation to land in your home directory, run it this way:

$ ./configure ...
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