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Debian 13 apt ships Node 20

Debian 13 (trixie) nodejs is 20.x; Wrangler 4 and many CLIs need Node >=22. Install official 22 LTS to /usr/local and dpkg-divert /usr/bin/node.

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Debian 13 apt nodejs is 20.x. Wrangler 4 refuses to start below 22.0.0. Do not replace the apt package — other Debian node-* packages depend on it.

To make Node 22 the system default:

  1. Extract the official node-v22.*-linux-x64.tar.gz from nodejs.org into /usr/local (--strip-components=1). /usr/local/bin is already first on the default PATH.
  2. dpkg-divert --local --divert /usr/bin/node.distrib --rename /usr/bin/node then ln -sfn /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node. Cron/systemd PATH=/usr/bin:/bin and #!/usr/bin/node then get 22. Debian 20 stays at /usr/bin/node.distrib.
  3. Prefer the .tar.gz if xz-utils is missing. Verify SHASUMS256.txt.

After this, node -v and /usr/bin/node -v are 22; npm/npx come from /usr/local/bin.

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