I figured out a hacky intermediate solution shoftly after I wrote this email, but never followed up.
Install Nix and the Nix service. Now I can hackily get a newer Node! ;) Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Our Node is out of date, but this may be fine security-wise and > package-needs wise for the moment; see also: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34526 > > Unfortunately updating it seems difficult for the reasons described in > that package (the Node community introduced more classic bootstrapping > problems). Unfortunately I have a pressing project which requires a > more recent version of Node; I'm trying to figure out how I can get a > newer version that runs using Guix. If it does something hacky, I'm ok > with it for now. > > I know some other people here use Guix as the distro on which they do > Node development; maybe someone already has a hacky package that can't > quite make it into mainline yet? I'd love the recipe if you do. > > - Chris
