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I have to acknowledge being an old timer U*ix system administrator. Software to be used by everybody had two possible locations:

/usr/bin /usr/local/bin

The best example is gcc and family.

Now I find myself in a new world. My node installation lives in:

/home/david/.nvm/versions/node/v14.7.0/bin/node

So I added the corresponding directory to my path.

How/where should the node package be installed? It would be done and owned by root, of course.

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  • Do you actually have multiple human beings wanting to use node on the same computer? That's pretty uncommon these days since computers are so cheap everyone has one (or several).
    – Michael Hampton
    Commented Aug 17, 2020 at 22:42
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    Does this answer your question? How do you install Node.JS on CentOS?
    – Christopher H
    Commented Aug 17, 2020 at 22:55
  • Michael: My goal is to run a server application based on node.js. More specifically, this one: github.com/potree/potree. The users are actually two developers.
    – David Alarcon
    Commented Aug 17, 2020 at 22:57
  • Yes, Christopher, it seems that my question is answered there, in that 9 year old post. The installation takes over one hour, so I am not 100% sure. Keeping my finger crossed.
    – David Alarcon
    Commented Aug 17, 2020 at 22:59

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You want to install NodeJS to /usr/bin. Installing an application to a user's home directory and giving others access to that directory is not considered best practice, and should only ever be done for very short-term requirements. You'd also need to grant the other users read access to that directory, which has the potential to cause issues.

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