On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 1:33:49 AM UTC+2, Aria Stewart wrote: > > On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 7:22:15 PM UTC-4, Guy Dillen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Until know i have worked with nodejs on Mac and Windows so >> straightforward installing nodejs from the binaries. >> Now i need nodejs on Debian 32-bit. I'm confused as how to install it on >> Debian: >> - can i just install the Linux 32 bit binaries? >> - or compile nodejs from source? >> - or by using a package manager? >> >> What is the recommended way? >> >> > All of those are good ways. The binaries on nodejs.org and iojs.org are > pretty broadly compatible. > > Package manager works well -- check out deb.nodesource.com. They're good > quality packaging, unlike the debian "-legacy"-ized nodejs package. > > Compiling from source works, too, though things that ship with binaries > for the stock binaries may have to rebuild, too. But if you're building > from source, one can assume you're comfortable with that. >
The debian "nodejs" package mainly suffers from not being up to date, and that situation will improve in debian/testing after stable jessie is released (that's next month or so). Assuming you need /usr/bin/node, just install "nodejs-legacy" as well. Jérémy -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/8c346b02-62a2-4833-ba66-6d08ecabd76f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
