How to upgrade NodeJs on Lubuntu 16.04

If you have lubuntu 16.04 and you already install nodejs on your machine, you will see that the nodejs version is not the latest one. We need to find a way to upgrade nodejs on our lubuntu.

To check your nodejs installation, you can run node -v on the console, this will gives you the information about nodejs version that you have right now. Mine was version 4.2.6, which is not the lastest. I want to upgrade to at least nodejs version 6.

To upgrade nodejs version, we need to have curl installed, so make sure you have that.

sudo apt-get install curl

And then you can upgrade nodejs with one of these command, depending on nodejs version you want to use.

Upgrade to nodejs version 4

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

Upgrade to nodejs version 5

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Upgrade to nodejs version 6

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Upgrade to nodejs version 7

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Upgrade to nodejs version 8

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs