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How do I install the latest node inside a docker ubuntu 15.10 container?
apt-get install nodejs installs version 0.1 and no npm

Thanks

OK got it,

update apt-get update

install curl apt-get install curl

get install script and pass it to execute: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | bash

and install node apt-get install nodejs

confirm that it was successful node -v
npm installs automatically npm -v

use curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | bash for node 5.x

This is how I have been installing nodeJS into a container. In my case, I am using an nginx base image.

Use the following command

    apt-get update -yq 

    && apt-get install curl gnupg -yq 

    && curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash 

    && apt-get install nodejs -yq

GNUPG is needed by the nodeJS installer. Without it, you will get the following error message;

[91mE: gnupg, gnupg2 and gnupg1 do not seem to be installed, but one of them is required for this operation

You can add a single line to your Dockerfile.

FROM node:8.2

There is a list of supported tag names here: https://hub.docker.com/_/node/

Updated solution as of Jan 2019:

FROM ubuntu:latest

USER root

WORKDIR /home/app

COPY ./package.json /home/app/package.json

RUN apt-get update

RUN apt-get -y install curl gnupg

RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x  | bash -

RUN apt-get -y install nodejs

RUN npm install

installing nodejs v8 with ubuntu 16.04 base image:

FROM ubuntu:16.04



WORKDIR /app



RUN echo "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/environment

RUN echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/environment

RUN echo "NODE_ENV=development" >> /etc/environment

RUN more "/etc/environment"

#RUN locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8

#RUN dpkg-reconfigure locales



RUN apt-get update

RUN apt-get upgrade -y

RUN apt-get dist-upgrade -y

RUN apt-get install curl htop git zip nano ncdu build-essential chrpath libssl-dev libxft-dev pkg-config glib2.0-dev libexpat1-dev gobject-introspection python-gi-dev apt-transport-https libgirepository1.0-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libgsf-1-dev fail2ban nginx -y



# Install Node.js

RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash

RUN apt-get install --yes nodejs

RUN node -v

RUN npm -v

RUN npm i -g nodemon

RUN nodemon -v



# Cleanup

RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get autoremove -y

I also installed some extra dependencies I need so you can clean up this code for your needs. But it installs nodejs & npm & nodemon.

I am using following Dockerfile to setup node version 8.10.0.

Here I have used NVM (Node Version Manager ), so we can choose which node version should be installed on that container. Please use absolute path of npm when installing node modules (eg: /root/.nvm/versions/node/v${NODE_VERSION}/bin/npm install leasot@latest -g)

   FROM ubuntu:18.04

   ENV NODE_VERSION=8.10.0

   RUN apt-get update && 

       apt-get install wget curl ca-certificates rsync -y

   RUN wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash

   ENV NVM_DIR=/root/.nvm

   RUN . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" && nvm install ${NODE_VERSION}

   RUN . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" &&  nvm use v${NODE_VERSION}

   RUN . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" && nvm alias default v${NODE_VERSION}

   RUN cp /root/.nvm/versions/node/v${NODE_VERSION}/bin/node /usr/bin/

   RUN cp /root/.nvm/versions/node/v${NODE_VERSION}/bin/npm /usr/bin/

   RUN /root/.nvm/versions/node/v${NODE_VERSION}/bin/npm install  leasot@latest -g

Note: This is a cropped Dockerfile.