See examples below, and Installing n for prerequisites and installation options. After installation, be sure to open a new terminal tab or window or reload your shell initialization file before attempting to use n / Node.js - see.All installation prerequisites are met by default on OSX and some Linux distros notably, git and curl must be present - see Installing n for details.Note that any preexisting n, Node.js installation must be removed before using this installation method.By default, the latest stable Node.js version is installed you can suppress that or even specify multiple Node.js versions to install.npm-packages, you can choose what you want as long as you replace it throughout these steps. Create a directory for your global packages.
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This adds node, sans npm brew install node -without-npm. brew uninstall node Install Node and NPM.
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When overriding, it is advisable to choose a user location - typically, a subfolder of ~ (at any level) - so as to avoid the need to use sudo for installation of global npm packages.The installation target is a dedicated directory, which defaults to ~/n and can be overridden with environment variable N_PREFIX n itself as well as the active Node.js version are placed there.This is by far the simplest way to get started with both n and Node.js - even if you're looking to install only the latest stable Node.js version, with no (immediate) plans to install multiple versions.