Bdtyktl

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.