# Install Node.js via binary archive Download: [https://nodejs.org/en/download/](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) ##### With Linux Unzip the binary archive to any directory you wanna install Node, I use /usr/local/lib/nodejs ```shell VERSION=v10.15.0 DISTRO=linux-x64 sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/nodejs sudo tar -xJvf node-$VERSION-$DISTRO.tar.xz -C /usr/local/lib/nodejs ``` Set the environment variable ~/.profile, add below to the end ```shell # Nodejs VERSION=v10.15.0 DISTRO=linux-x64 export PATH=/usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-$VERSION-$DISTRO/bin:$PATH ``` Refresh profile ```shell . ~/.profile ``` Test installation using ```shell $ node -v $ npm version $ npx -v ``` the normal output is: ``` ➜ node -v v10.15.1 ➜ npm version { npm: '6.4.1', ares: '1.15.0', cldr: '33.1', http_parser: '2.8.0', icu: '62.1', modules: '64', napi: '3', nghttp2: '1.34.0', node: '10.15.1', openssl: '1.1.0j', tz: '2018e', unicode: '11.0', uv: '1.23.2', v8: '6.8.275.32-node.12', zlib: '1.2.11' } ``` ##### Yarn Installation ```bash cd /path/to/your-project corepack enable yarn init -2 # Updating Yarn yarn set version stable yarn install ```