bin doesn't exist

Question

I'm trying to make a symbolic link with node and nodejs, but it always returns :

No such file or directory

I've tried

$ cd ~/bin

just to get to the directory but it still says No such file or directory. I don't think I have the bin file at all.

Answer 1

To answer your ~/bin related question, by default Ubuntu does not come with ~/bin directory, if you want you can create it :

mkdir ~/bin

Note that this is $HOME/bin i.e. if your username is foobar then ~/bin or $HOME/bin expands to /home/foobar/bin. This directory is normally used for saving user specific binary files.

There is also a /bin directory, which is generally used for global binary files.

Answer 2

No such file or directory.]

Then you have to create it(normally not founded in Ubuntu), this is used for using non sudo applications in local env. Check this :https://askubuntu.com/a/643030/150504.

now to create this dir easily run:

mkdir ~/bin

Now to make the binaries inside this bin available to global(To add this dir to PATH env variable), all you have is to source .profile:

source ~/.profile

Answer 3

If you want to launch nodejs through node symlink, you need nodejs-legacy package.