# Node red on ubuntu OS and on Raspberri pi hardware
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030
**Category:** General
**Created:** [12 March 2020 13:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030 "2020-03-12T13:07:00Z")
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### Author:  [@saeed1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/saeed1)
#### Post date: [12 March 2020 13:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030/1 "2020-03-12T13:07:00Z")
Hi,
I have installed ubuntu Mate on my raspberri pi 3B. I want to install node red but no way.
Is there a Hardware Problem? I mean ubuntu on raspi and then node-red
Thank you
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### Author:  [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)
#### Post date: [12 March 2020 13:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030/2 "2020-03-12T13:08:25Z")
Which method did you try?
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### Author:  [@saeed1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/saeed1)
#### Post date: [12 March 2020 13:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030/3 "2020-03-12T13:11:39Z")
@ghayne Thank you for quick Reply.
I have tried almost all. Recently i tried this
> **[How to install and configure Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-connect-your-internet-of-things-with-node-red-on-ubuntu-16-04)**
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> Node-RED is a switchboard for the Internet of Things, a visual tool that helps you connect your favorite apps, websites, and hardware together to do new and useful things. Node-RED has a powerful and flexible interface, and a large open source...
Error: Unable to locate package …...
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### Author:  [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)
#### Post date: [12 March 2020 13:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030/4 "2020-03-12T13:14:10Z")
Did you look here?
[https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/raspberrypi](https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/raspberrypi)
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### Author:  [@saeed1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/saeed1)
#### Post date: [12 March 2020 13:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030/5 "2020-03-12T13:22:53Z")
Its Raspbian OS. I am using ubuntu on raspberri pi.
I tried it also but no way
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### Author:  [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)
#### Post date: [12 March 2020 13:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030/6 "2020-03-12T13:25:20Z")
> [@saeed1](#):
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> Its Raspbian OS
If you read a bit further it says:
This script will work on any Debian-based operating system, including Ubuntu and Diet-Pi. You may need to run `sudo apt-get install build-essential` first to ensure npm is able to build any binary modules it needs to install.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [11 May 2020 13:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-ubuntu-os-and-on-raspberri-pi-hardware/23030/7 "2020-05-11T13:25:23Z")
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