If by any chance, your are in the root environment and the previous command returns ' -bash: node: command not found', you can fix this by creating the following symbolic links : sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node You can verify afterwards if the installation was successful by checking the versions of node and npm : this may take a while, especially the compiling part. Unpack and cleanup : tar -xvf node-v4.6.0.tar.gz & rm node-v4.6.0.tar.gz.Version is v4.6.0 (which includes npm 2.15.9) Download the Node.js source code, select the recommended LTS version via the Node.js download page and copy the URL of the 'Source Code' -package : curl -O.Install required packages : sudo yum install -y gcc gcc-c++ make openssl-develįor the next steps, use /tmp as the working directory.Make sure our server has the latest packages :.Once the EC2 instance is up-and-running, connect to your server via ssh The following will guide you through the process of installing Node.js on an AWS EC2 instance running Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09 - Release Notesįor this process I'll be using a t2.micro EC2 instance running

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