Recent community releases of Node.js built by Oracle
The Node.js repositories contain the latest builds of stable Node.js releases from the community, including node-oracledb. They are provided without support.
Node.js Version | Oracle Linux Release | Repository/Module:Appstream |
---|---|---|
v14.x | Oracle Linux 8 | nodejs:14 |
v12.x | Oracle Linux 8 | nodejs:12 |
v10.x | Oracle Linux 8 | nodejs:10 (default) |
v14.x | Oracle Linux 7 | ol7_developer_nodejs14 |
v12.x | Oracle Linux 7 | ol7_developer_nodejs12 |
v10.x | Oracle Linux 7 | ol7_developer_nodejs10 |
v8.x | Oracle Linux 7 | ol7_developer_nodejs8 |
v6.x | Oracle Linux 7 | ol7_developer_nodejs6 |
v10.x | Oracle Linux 6 | ol6_developer_nodejs10 |
v8.x | Oracle Linux 6 | ol6_developer_nodejs8 |
v6.x | Oracle Linux 6 | ol6_developer_nodejs6 |
To configure the yum repositories shown above on your system, install the oracle-nodejs-release-el7 or oracle-nodejs-release-el6 RPM. After installing this RPM, the default enabled repository is that for the latest available Node.js release. To configure the Node.js and the Oracle Instant Client repository:
$ sudo yum install -y oracle-nodejs-release-el7 oracle-release-el7
If yum is unable to find any of the packages mentioned below, follow the instructions on our Getting Started page to ensure your system is set up correctly to work with our release packages.
To install the latest Node.js:
$ sudo yum install nodejs
If you have Node.js installed, and a newer release has been published, make sure you update oracle-nodejs-release-el7 first.
$ sudo yum update oracle-nodejs-release-el7
$ sudo yum update nodejs
Note: if your system has oracle-epel-release-el7 installed or ol7_developer_EPEL among its repo definitions, make sure you disable the EPEL repo while installing or updating nodejs, to avoid installing the wrong package. For example:
$ sudo yum --disablerepo=ol7_developer_EPEL install nodejs
The node-oracledb module for Node.js powers high performance Oracle Database applications. Use node-oracledb to connect Node.js 6, 8 and 10 to Oracle Database. The node-oracledb module is open source and maintained by Oracle Corp. It is stable, well documented, and has a comprehensive test suite.
node-oracledb depends on Oracle Instant Client. Yum configurations for Oracle Instant Client 18.3 RPMs are delivered via the oracle-release-el7 and oracle-release-el6 RPMs. Assuming you have installed the Oracle release package your Oracle Linux release, the Oracle Instant Client be installed as a dependency. As of release 3.0, node-oracledb is built with Oracle Client 18.3, which connects to Oracle Database 11.2 and greater. Older releases of Oracle Instant Client are available on OTN.
Each Node.js release has its own repository on Oracle Linux yum server and each of those repositories also contains a corresponding RPM for node-oracledb. These RPMs follow this naming scheme:
node-oracledb-node<node release number>
For example, on Oracle Linux 7, the node-oracledb RPM for Node.js 10 is named:
node-oracledb-node10
Check the repositories listed under Available Releases to see what RPMs are available.
$ sudo yum install node-oracledb-node10
Finally, for Oracle Instant Client releases before 19.x, you must set up the environment so that node-oracledb can find the necessary libraries. For example, for Oracle Instant Client release 18.3:
$ sudo sh -c "echo /usr/lib/oracle/18.3/client64/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient.conf"
$ sudo ldconfig
Note that node-oracledb only works with Node.js 6.14.4 or higher. Before you use node-oracledb in a Node.js program,
set NODE_PATH so that the node-oracledb module can be found:
$ export NODE_PATH=`npm root -g`
Oracle Linux 8 introduces DNF as well as the concepts of modules, streams and profiles to allow for the management of different versions of software applications within a single operating system release. For mode details, please refer to the documentation.
To install Node.js 12 on Oracle Linux 8:
$ sudo dnf install @nodejs:12
For help with Node.js on Oracle Linux, please visit the Node.js space in the Oracle Developer Community.