Debain docs outdated / Merge with Ubuntu?

[angristan]

The Debian installation page is very outdated, since it mentions Wheezy, Node 0.12, etc.

I was going to update it but the Ubuntu page will basically work exactly the same, besides 2 or 3 repositories that are also available on Debian.

I have 2 propositions:

• To rewrite the Debian page from the Ubuntu page (= paste the Ubuntu page and make a few changes)
• To merge both pages and point out differences. (This might not even be needed if we use lsb_release for the repositories URL, for instance).

What do you think? Both should be pretty quick and easy to do.

[julianlam]

As always I'd recommend opening a PR if you can 😁

With respect to Debian vs Ubuntu, as long as Debian testing uses Node v8.x you should be good to copy/paste the Ubuntu docs. I have a feeling stable doesn't use v8.x though...

[angristan]

Yes, I was planning on doing so but I wanted to know what to do before ^^

Usually, on Debian, Node is not installed from the Debian repo but from nodesource: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md. This is what is currently used by the Ubuntu tutorial, so they can have the exact same version.

[julianlam]

Then perfect, as long as you run through the instructions once and they work identically to the Ubuntu version, I see no reason you can just copy one over to the other, or even just merge the two.

[angristan]

OK, expect a PR 👍

[psychobunny]

looks like you've done the heavy lifting but we forgot to close this
#32

thank you!