The instructions below apply to older versions of Homebrew which still provide switch capability.
For current Homebrew, you'll likely need to keep Versions around, and build locally. Here's my versions repository https://github.com/rdump/homebrew-versions
MacPorts is now keeping versioned installations available as well, by default.
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| # Version 1: using ‘apt-get install’ | |
| # Installs using apt-get | |
| # Requires update to npm afterwards | |
| # Harder to get latest copy of node | |
| # Requires sudo to use npm | |
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| # create new docker ubuntu container | |
| sudo docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash # drops you into container as root |