How to install fresh version of Nodejs in ubuntu?

Question

Node.js

Introduced commands in which 5.x appears
https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall
as a result, when I enter
nodejs --version
0.10.25

Answer 1

Use nvm (node ​​version manager) .

Answer 2

Try to add sudo in front of the installation commands, you may not have enough rights to overwrite the version that is already there.

Answer 3

Try like this:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs