How to install Node.js via binary archive on Linux?

Download the NodeJS : https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Unzip the binary archive to any directory you wanna install Node, I use /usr/local/lib/nodejs

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/node

sudo tar -xJvf node-v8.9.4-linux-x64.tar.xz

sudo mv /usr/local/lib/node/node-v8.9.4-linux-x64 /usr/local/lib/node/nodejs

Set the environment variable ~/.profile, add below to the end.

# Nodejs
export NODEJS_HOME=/usr/local/lib/node/nodejs
export PATH=$NODEJS_HOME/bin:$PATH

Refresh profile

. ~/.profile

Test installation using

$ node -v

$ npm version

➜  node -v
v8.9.4
➜  npm version
{ npm: '5.6.0',
 ares: '1.10.1-DEV',
 cldr: '31.0.1',
 http_parser: '2.7.0',
 icu: '59.1',
 modules: '57',
 nghttp2: '1.25.0',
 node: '8.9.4',
 openssl: '1.0.2n',
 tz: '2017b',
 unicode: '9.0',
 uv: '1.15.0',
 v8: '6.1.534.50',
 zlib: '1.2.11' }

Done