I've got a server running Ubuntu 20, and wanted to try out something on it with nodejs. I checked on the server and apparently nodejs was already installed. I guess some previous dependency had put it on there a long time ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
OK, so the next thing I needed to do was to install node package manager, npm. (you might need to scroll down in a second)<\/p>\n\n\n\n No! No I do not want to continue! 378 packages? Are you mad? To install a package manager? No point, its already installed everything in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So what to do. After a while I hit on this. First of all install node version mamager (nvm). This will let you grab a more recent version than the one in the Ubuntu repository. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I've got a server running Ubuntu 20, and wanted to try out something on it with nodejs. I checked on the server and apparently nodejs was already installed. I guess some previous dependency had put it on there a long time ago. node –version v10.19.0apt-cache policy nodejs nodejs: Installed: 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1 Candidate: 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1 OK, so the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}node --version
v10.19.0<\/code>apt-cache policy nodejs
nodejs:
Installed: 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1
Candidate: 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\napt install npm
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Do you want to continue? [Y\/n] n<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n# instruction from the git repo https:\/\/github.com\/nvm-sh\/nvm
curl -o- https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/nvm-sh\/nvm\/v0.38.0\/install.sh | bash<\/code>
And now we can get the latest version of nodejs. Hmm, 10.x to 16.x, that's quite a bump
<\/p>\n\n\n\nnvm install node
Downloading and installing node v16.0.0\u2026
nvm use node
Now using node v16.0.0 (npm v7.10.0)<\/code>
But wait … what's this … npm is already installed? <\/p>\n\n\n\nnpm
Usage:
npm install install all the dependencies in your project
npm install add the dependency to your project
<\/code>
Bingo. So now we can use it without clogging everything up. TLDR: Use the version from the nodejs site, not the Ubuntu package. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"