
A package is just a code library that extends Node by adding useful features. NPM is a “package manager” that makes installing Node “packages” fast and easy. You can also use it to perform helpful tasks on your computer such as concatenating and minifying JavaScript files and compiling Sass files into CSS. Node.js® is a JavaScript-based environment which you can use to create web-servers and networked applications. The raspberry 3 tutorials work with a tar.gz file the current tar.xz file on can not be extracted by the “tar -xzf” command, but requires the “tar -xvf” command as in the example above.Installing Node.js® and NPM on Linux What’s Node.js® and NPM?.Raspberry 3 uses a different processor, this is what makes this tutorial fit the raspberry 4.Move up one folder to remove the file and folder: Copy the content to /usr/local/ by running the command:.The tax.xz file is extracted in a folder with the same name.

The filename might be different if your fresh link was different

Now the file is in the location you ran the command and you can extract it by running the command:.(Mind if you have a Raspberry 3 you must use an other button, and the link above is per Oktober 2019, so by the time you read this you better get a fresh link yourself) Running the command “wget ” gets the file.Now visit and copy the link behind the button:.This should result in the newly processor indentiefier “arm71” First verify you have the Raspbian 4 by running the command “uname -m”.This post reveils the way to install on the Raspberry 4 with Debian buster.

First off, there are multiple fine tutorials on how to install Node on the raspberry 3, but these are a bit out dated to use on the Raspberry 4 with Debian Buster installed.
