On Debian or Ubuntu Linux, you can install Yarn via our Debian package
repository. You will first need to configure the repository:
On Ubuntu 16.04 or below and Debian Stable, you will also need to configure the NodeSource repository to get a new enough version of Node.js.
Then you can simply:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install yarn
Note: Ubuntu 17.04 comes with cmdtest
installed by default. If you're getting errors from installing yarn
, you may want to run sudo apt remove cmdtest
first. Refer to this for more information.
If using nvm
you can avoid the node
installation by doing:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install --no-install-recommends yarn
Note: Due to the use of nodejs
instead of node
name in some distros, yarn
might complain about node
not being installed. A workaround for this is to add an alias in your .bashrc
file, like so: alias node=nodejs
. This will point yarn
to whatever version of node
you decide to use.
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