how to use node 18/20 on centos7

Note (2026-08-14): era-specific workaround. Both node lines pinned here are now EOL: node 18 (2025-04-30) and node 20 (2026-04-30), and CentOS 7 itself reached EOL 2024-06-30. The glibc-2.31 patch only raises the ceiling enough for the node 18/20-era official prebuilt binaries — node 22+ prebuilts typically require a newer glibc, so this trick will not carry future LTS lines. For any new work prefer upgrading the OS or running node inside a container. nvm tag refreshed to v0.40.6.

install node by nvm

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# install nvm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.6/install.sh | bash

# install node
nvm ls-remote --lts

# node 18 is lts/hydrogen, node 20 is lts/iron
nvm install lts/hydrogen
nvm install lts/iron

# check node version
nvm alias default lts/hydrogen
node -v

nvm alias default lts/iron
node -v

You will find that node 18 works well, but node 20 will not work, because the glibc version is too low. That’s so bad, but don’t worry; we can fix it by the following steps.

install glibc 2.31 and libstdc++.so.6.0.25

Follow my another article centos7-upgrade-libc to upgrade glibc to 2.31.

test

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nvm alias default lts/iron
node -v # it works well

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