How to Install Gulp.js on Linux Mint 19/18

Gulp is an toolkit helps developers for the automation of painful workflow during the development. This tutorial will help you to install Gulp on Linux Mint operating systems.

Step 1 – Installing Node.js

First of all, you need to install node.js on your system. Use following set of commands to add node.js PPA in your Linuxmint system and install it.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs

Make sure you have successfully installed node.js and NPM on your system

node --version
npm --version

Step 2 – Install Gulp.js on Linux Mint

After installation of node.js and NPM on your system, use following commands to install Gulp on Linux Mint globally.

sudo npm install -g gulp

You have successfully installed Gulp. Let’s check the installed version of bower on your system using the following command.

gulp --version

[12:19:18] CLI version 3.9.1
[12:19:18] Local version 3.9.1