How To Install Node.js on Ubuntu or Debian from NodeSource

Debian and Ubuntu based distributions

Available architectures

NodeSource will continue to maintain the following architectures and may add additional ones in the future.

• amd64 (64-bit)
• armhf (ARM 32-bit hard-float, ARMv7 and up: arm-linux-gnueabihf)
• arm64 (ARM 64-bit, ARMv8 and up: aarch64-linux-gnu)

Supported Versions

Ubuntu versions

Debian versions

Installation Instructions

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If you have root access, you can omit the 'sudo' command as you already have full administrative privileges.

1. Download and import the Nodesource GPG key

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg

2. Create deb repository

NODE_MAJOR=20
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_$NODE_MAJOR.x nodistro main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

Optional: NODE_MAJOR can be changed depending on the version you need.

NODE_MAJOR=16
NODE_MAJOR=18
NODE_MAJOR=20
NODE_MAJOR=21

3. Run Update and Install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs -y

Uninstall nodejs Ubuntu & Debian packages

To completely remove Node.js installed from the deb.nodesource.com package methods above:

use sudo on Ubuntu or run this as root on Debian

apt-get purge nodejs &&\
rm -r /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list &&\
rm -r /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg

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