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Using node with Debian and Ubuntu.md

Using node with Debian and Ubuntu.

If installed using nvm, the following package still needs to be installed to avoid node-gyp rebuild errors when installing some packages.

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

See https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/OLDER_DISTROS.md for using Node >= 4.x => sudo apt-get install -y gcc-4.8 g++-4.8

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=22938
http://askubuntu.com/questions/534658/undo-update-alternatives
http://mortenvp.com/installing-a-newer-gccg-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts/

If an update version of node-gyp is needed inside current version of npm see the following, https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/wiki/Updating-npm%27s-bundled-node-gyp

npm explore npm -g -- npm install node-gyp@latest

Ubuntu Mate for Raspbery pi appears to need clang installed or node-gyp rebuild errors will occur with some libraries.

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