#!/bin/bash echo "> Getting latest version number" VERSION=v${1:-$(curl https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json | sed -e 's/^.*"version":"\([^"]*\)".*$/\1/' | head -n 2 | tail -n -1 | cut -c 2-)} NODEJS=node-${VERSION}-linux-x64 echo "> Downloading $VERSION of node.js" curl -s https://nodejs.org/dist/${VERSION}/${NODEJS}.tar.xz | tar xvfJ - echo "> Setting ownership of /usr/local to $USER" sudo chown -R ${USER}:${USER} /usr/local echo "> Moving extracted node.js binaries" if [ "$(pwd)" != "/usr/local/lib" ]; then rm -rf /usr/local/lib/${NODEJS} && mv ${NODEJS} /usr/local/lib fi echo "> Symlinks" sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/{iojs,node,npm,node-gyp} ln -s /usr/local/lib/${NODEJS}/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node ln -s /usr/local/lib/${NODEJS}/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/npm echo "> Global prefix" npm config set prefix /usr/local echo "node.js version: $(node -v), npm version: $(npm -v)"