最简单的解决方案是这样的(以root用户执行这些操作)

sudo su root
cd /etc
mkdir node
yum install wget
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v9.0.0/node-v9.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xvf node-v9.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd node-v9.0.0-linux-x64/bin
./node -v
ln -s /etc/node-v9.0.0-linux-x64/bin/node node

偶然发现了这个，奇怪的是后来很难再找到了。为子孙后代写在这里:

sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel

EDIT 3:截至2016年7月，EDIT 1不再适用于nodejs 4 (EDIT 2也一样)。这个答案(https://stackoverflow.com/a/35165401/78935)给出了一个真正的单行程序。

编辑1:如果你正在寻找nodejs 4，请尝试EPEL测试repo:

sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo=epel-testing

编辑2:使用上面的命令从EPEL repo安装的nodejs 0.12升级到EPEL测试repo的nodejs 4，请遵循以下步骤:

sudo yum rm nodejs
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/node
sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo=epel-testing

较新的包将节点二进制文件放在/usr/bin中，而不是/usr/local/bin。

一些背景知识:

选项——enablerepo=epel会导致yum在epel存储库中搜索包。

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is open source and free community based repository project from Fedora team which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS, and Scientific Linux. Epel project is not a part of RHEL/Cent OS but it is designed for major Linux distributions by providing lots of open source packages like networking, sys admin, programming, monitoring and so on. Most of the epel packages are maintained by Fedora repo. Via http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-enable-epel-repository-for-rhel-centos-6-5/

似乎没有人提到这一点。在Amazon Linux 2上，加载EPEL的官方方式是:

Sudo amazon-linux-extras安装epel

.．.那么你可以:

Sudo yum安装nodejs  

参见Extras Library (Amazon Linux 2)

您可以通过重新安装已安装的包到当前版本来更新/安装节点，这可能会使我们在进行更新时避免大量错误。

这是由nvm使用下面的命令完成的。在这里，我已经将我的节点版本更新到8，并将所有可用的包重新安装到v8 !

nvm i v8 --reinstall-packages-from=default

它也可以在AWS Linux实例上工作。

2022年5月

我在这上面花了太长时间。我的亚马逊Linux 2配置，以root身份运行。

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11542846/nvm-node-js-recommended-install-for-all-users
echo "=================================N=O=D=E========================================"

cd /usr/local/bin || exit 90

git clone https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm.git .nvm

\. "/usr/local/bin/.nvm/nvm.sh"

nvm install --lts

node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)"

cat << "EOF" > /etc/profile.d/npm.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export NVM_DIR="/usr/local/bin/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm'}

EOF

chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/npm.sh

npm install -g npm

2022年6月-系统真的很讨厌箱子里没有链接的东西。如果你需要其他用户可以访问的东西，这里有一个小更新。诚然，添加/etc/profile.d/npm.sh正是nvm建议的，但我发现它被高估了。我认为它可以被消去取代ln -s。快乐的黑客

#!/bin/zsh

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11542846/nvm-node-js-recommended-install-for-all-users
echo "=================================N=O=D=E========================================"

cd /usr/local/bin || exit 90

git clone https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm.git .nvm

# this uncontrolled script has an unbound variable $HOME
# @link https://github.com/Drop-In-Gaming/dropingaming.com/runs/6437329820?check_suite_focus=true
\. "/usr/local/bin/.nvm/nvm.sh" || true

# todo - try to install 18
nvm install --lts

nvm install 17

node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)"

cat << "EOF" > /etc/profile.d/npm.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export NVM_DIR="/usr/local/bin/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm'}

EOF

echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /root/.bashrc

echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /root/.zshrc

echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /home/ssm-user/.bashrc

echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /home/ssm-user/.zshrc

echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /home/www-data/.bashrc

echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /home/www-data/.zshrc

chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/npm.sh

npm install -g npm

echo "===========================WHERE==IS==NODE==========================="

which node

which npm

echo "symlinking to /usr/bin/"

if [ -e /usr/bin/node ]; then

  sudo rm -f /usr/bin/node

fi

if [ -e /usr/bin/npm ]; then

  sudo rm -f /usr/bin/npm

fi

sudo ln -s "$(which node)" /usr/bin/

sudo ln -s "$(which npm)" /usr/bin/

接受的答案给了我节点0.10.36和npm 1.3.6，这是非常过时的。我从nodejs下载页面获取了最新的linux-x64 tarball，安装起来并不太难:https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/。

# start in a directory where you like to install things for the current user
(For noobs : it downloads node package as node.tgz file in your directlry)
curl (paste the link to the one you want from the downloads page) >node.tgz

现在将刚刚下载的tar文件压缩

tar xzf node.tgz

运行这个命令，然后将它添加到你的.bashrc:

export PATH="$PATH:(your install dir)/(node dir)/bin"

(例如:export PATH ="$PATH:/home/ec2-user/mydirectory/node/node4.5.0-linux-x64/bin")

更新npm(只有一次，不要添加到.bashrc):

npm install -g npm

注意-g的意思是全局的，对npm实例来说是全局的也就是我们刚刚安装的实例它仅限于当前用户。这将适用于npm“全局”安装的所有包。