Thoughts on security, privacy, and building software.
27 August 2017
Most of the guides I’ve found on how to do this are fairly involved, requiring you to build from source and install without a .dpkg, which is messy if you ever want to change your installation. Installing Node.js is the same as for Debian.
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash -
apt-get install -y nodejs
The package build-essential is required for compiling and installing native packages, but it’s already included in Kali’s base image.
As time moves on, you can see the most up to date Node.js version at https://github.com/nodesource/distributions