Upgrade Node.js and Node-Red
Posted: January 4th, 2020, 9:23 pm
By default the Node-red and Node.js supplied by the recovery is way too ancient for our liking. One major concern is that all recent palettes require a somehow up to date installation of Node-red to function.
There are 2 components to upgrade, Node-red and Node.js
1) Key in the following commands:
2) You WILL get an error and a bunch of no such file or directory.
3) This is because the default Busybox and tar is out of date and does not support the strip command. Click on my other post to upgrade tar and resume later.
4) Depending your version, remove the directory created earlier. Key in
5) Key in n latest to install the latest version
Congrats your Node.js is now up to date.
Reboot your device before continuing.
6) Key in npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red to upgrade Node-red.
Reboot and you're done.
There are 2 components to upgrade, Node-red and Node.js
1) Key in the following commands:
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npm cache clean -f
npm install -g n
n stable
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tar: unrecognized option '--strip-components=1;4) Depending your version, remove the directory created earlier. Key in
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root@hmibsc:~# n rm 13.5.0Code: Select all
root@hmibsc:~# n latestReboot your device before continuing.
6) Key in npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red to upgrade Node-red.
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root@hmibsc:~# npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red