Setup NPM

setup_npm.md

Install make

You will probably need build essential tools

# Ubuntu install build tools:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

Install Node.js

Node installation instructions

The instructions for Ubuntu/Debian:

# confirm the version of Ubuntu is supported
lsb_release -a
# should show Ubuntu version 20 or higher

# Update APT
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg

# Get repo for Node.js version 20
NODE_MAJOR=20
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_$NODE_MAJOR.x nodistro main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

# Install Node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs -y

Setup NPM

Avoid having to use sudo with npm on Ubuntu:

# Make a local directory for NPM
mkdir ~/.npm-global

# Configure NPM to use npm-global for non-root access
npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'

# Add .npm-global/bin to $PATH
# Change ~/.profile to ~/.zshrc if you are running in zsh shell like on macos
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.npm-global/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile

# Update the local $PATH (don't forget the leading . with a space after it)
. ~/.profile

For the PATH line under emacs, clarify that the line should be added to the file, not as a replacement for any other existing PATH definitions that may be present on a raspiblitz.

See the steps for the RaspiBlitz:
https://gist.github.com/openoms/823f99d1ab6e1d53285e489f7ba38602

Will work on adding it to the SERVICES.

tried that on tmux, closed session, opened new terminal bos: command not found. need to do . ~/-profile again.

tried that on tmux, closed session, opened new terminal bos: command not found. need to do . ~/-profile again.

Maybe it needs to be in .bashrc or .bash_profile or something

One of those should work:

1. echo "source ~/.profile" >> ~/.bash_profile
2. echo "source ~/.profile" >> ~/.bashrc

Then restart console. Now it should work everytime you open console.
Would be nice, if you could add this to the README.md.

Please do not recommend users to use https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x. It can break the system, as happened to a friend, and is generally less secure than installation from Debian/Ubuntu packages.

Simple apt install nodejs is enough. The version in Debian stable is supported by bos, so there's no problem. Users with older system should just upgrade the OS instead of making "franken Debian".

Ubuntu generally has newer packages than Debian stable, so the same applies in that case.