Install node.js on Ubuntu (via npm)

[Zhara]

I needed the latest version of node.js (6.x) on my new pine64. When I installed node.js via apt-get, the 4.x version was installed.

So this is, what I did to get node.js 6.x:

First I installed npm:
> sudo apt-get install npm

After that I could install node.js via npm
> sudo npm i node-linux-arm64 -g

Checking the version:
> node -v
v6.1.0

Done 
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Do you think the instructions on this page will work with the Pine64? They also include MongoDB..
https://github.com/aspnetde/nodejs-webserver-guide

Some parts of that guide might be helpful, but maybe you should not always rely on that and adapt it to your needs.

As far as I have seen, this uses a quite old version of node! So I am not sure, if you really want to go this way. I guess it is more secure to use latest available versions (at least in my case, I wanted node with latest ES6-features). 

Be sure to always install AMD64 packages(!).