Raspberry PI

Node 4.7 LTS

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.7.2/node-v4.7.2-linux-armv6l.tar.gz

tar -xvf node-v4.7.2-linux-armv6l.tar.gz

cd node-v4.7.2-linux-armv6l

sudo cp -R * /usr/local/

sudo reboot

node -v (should show 4.7.2)

Node 6.9 LTS

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.2/node-v6.9.2-linux-armv6l.tar.gz

tar -xvf node-v6.9.2-linux-armv6l.tar.gz

cd node-v6.9.2-linux-armv6l

sudo cp -R * /usr/local/

sudo reboot

node -v (should show 6.9.2)

Node-RED test environment

sudo npm install -g node-red --unsafe-perm --build-from-source

sudo npm install -g node-red-contrib-modbus --unsafe-perm --build-from-source

sudo npm install -g node-red-node-data-generator --unsafe-perm --build-from-source

Attention

The installation takes a long time on my PI one - so be patiant ;)

Tested on

Node-RED version: v0.16.1

Node.js version: v6.9.2

Linux 4.1.19+ arm LE - armv6l GNU/Linux