Hello, I am trying to install node-red on ASUS tinkerboard. It uses Debian 10. I am using this command: bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered) how to change default install location from /root/.node-red to /var/lib/node-re…

You seem to be installing as root, which is not recommended, no doubt with good reason. Can you explain why you want to install as root and why in that directory? Taking a glance at the install script it seems to base it's installation directory on $HOME so you could try mkdir /var/lib/node-red; e…

At the moment I have two users. So for now root will be okay. I have node-red installed in that directory on another device. So I want this directory on tinkerboard. Those commands didn't help.

Did you get any error messages?

No, just saw that node-red installed in /root/.node-red

[image] Aivaras1: how to change default install location from /root/.node-red to /var/lib/node-red/.node-red ? First, node-red does not install to this location. This location is created only after you launch node-red. The .node-red directory is where flows are created. This does not exist un…

Yes. But I STRONGLY recommend you remove everything are re-install it without root before you end up posting "I have this error trying to install node-red-contib-blahblah"

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Aivaras1 16 June 2023 13:26 7

"If you want to avoid the automatic creation of this, simply pass in a user directory when starting node red."

You mean this ?

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