I referred to this already answered question, but it wasnt of any help. Can you tell me what I'm missing?
I'm trying to install node.js on my Debian 8.0. According to this github article, I followed. I have the tarball file downloaded, extracted it, but when I tried to run ./configure inside the extracted tarball directory, it said
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
I've checked the per-requisites that the site gave, I had all of them installed. Am I missing something here?
From the looks of your screenshot, it looks like you downloaded the pre-compiled binaries. If that's the case, you won't have to compile anything. You should find an executable nodejs file inside the bin folder.
If you want to compile your own, you should download the source tarball here instead of the binary tarball.
node and npm file in the bin directory. How do i use it? If i run ./node and then run the command node -v to check the version of node installed, it says node is not defined
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Sep 24, 2015 at 7:59
Extract and copy the folder somewhere. for ex :
/home/your_username/packages
or somewhere else you want.
Your path should look like: /home/your_username/packages/node-v5.7.1
Then add the node path to your $PATH so that u can execute node from anywhere
export PATH=$PATH:/home/your_username/packages/node-v5.7.1/bin
That's it!
To check, execute this command:
node -v
configurescript doesn't exist?ls configurewhat's the output? If it exists and if you are not able to run then add executable permission to that file.chmod +x configure. If the configure doesn't exist at all then runautoreconf -v -f --installand then run.\configure. Better send your source tree structure.So that I can see what is missing.root@shazLaptop:~/Downloads/node-v4.1.1-linux-x64# ls configure ls: cannot access configure: No such file or directory root@shazLaptop:~/Downloads/node-v4.1.1-linux-x64# autoreconf -v -f --install autoreconf: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required root@shazLaptop:~/Downloads/node-v4.1.1-linux-x64# .\configure bash: .configure: command not found