sudo: npm: command not found in WSL - node.js

I'm trying to install globally some packages for my Unix environment on Windows with WSL. I use nvm to manage the different versions of Node.js.
The problem is while using the sudo command before a global npm install :
sudo npm install --global prompt-pure
I get an error: sudo: npm: command not found !
Doing a simple npm install --global pure-prompt will work, but as I'm not super user, the global installation ends up with a permission error.
How can I fix this annoying problem and keep nvm ?
Thanks by advance

When you try to run sudo npm, it tries to run the npm binary file /usr/bin/npm but your binary is located in a different place, which can be found running which npm.
Example: /home/damo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.1/bin/npm
The solution is to create a link in /usr/bin/ pointing to the actual binary:
sudo ln -s "$(which npm)" /usr/bin/npm
You can also add the following link so you can run sudo node
sudo ln -s "$(which node)" /usr/bin/node

For me I needed to actually cheat and run as root before installing node as root. For this I ran sudo su in a Ubuntu WSL term and then installed node.
Once I did that I could sudo su then npm run special-script.
I don't know a better way to get a script to attach to restricted ports like 443 for testing https connections but it works.

As you will find in the man file for sudo man sudo sudo will execute a command as another user. That other user has a different home directory to you and access to different commands
When i run sudo which node i get nothing, but which node returns /home/damo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.1/bin/node
Lets look at your actual goal. You say you are trying to install pure-prompt, i know this does not ask your explicit question but given you have zsh installed have you tried oh-my-zsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh) i use this on every install of linux i ever have to work with (VMs, WSL, docker). Very customizable and looks great out of the box.

Related

Nodejs installed without npm?

I've just installed nodejs on Debian 7 - by apt-get install nodejs.
Nodejs seems to be working fine, but when I enter "npm" I get "command not found".
"which nodejs" points to "usr/bin" and there it is - nodejs, but there is no npm file, what went wrong?
I found a few solutions, but all of them are related to Macs
BTW, "usr/local/bin" directory is empty I believe everything should install right there?
You have several options.
If you want to continue using Debian packages, you could install npm (debian maintainers have it in a separate package).
apt-get install npm
If you want to just install npm, you can use this modification of Maxime's answer:
curl -L https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
(the -L is needed to make curl follow redirects.)
Finally, you may wish to use a different package source.
For some Linux distributions (Debian/Ubuntu and RedHat/CentOS), the latest node version provided by the distribution may lag behind the stable version. Here are instructions from NodeSource on getting the latest node, which includes npm and avoids using the problematic nodejs alias
Install npm
curl -L https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
(the -L is needed to make curl follow redirects.)
and check version
npm -v
Node.js is easy to install in Linux
create a directory nodejs inside /usr/local/lib
download nodejs
move downloaded tar.xz file inside /usr/local/lib
extract the tar.xz file and rename as like node-v8.9.4
setup environment
cd ./etc/profile.d
ls
sudo touch nodejs-env.sh
sudo atom nodejs-env.sh
where atom is my favourite editor; you can use your editor.
copy and paste below code inside nodejs-env.sh and save
export NODEJS_HOME=/usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v8.9.4
export PATH=$NODEJS_HOME/bin:$PATH
restart you machine.
done
There were several methods to install node.js on your debian. But I prefer this one:
Setup with Debian (as root):
apt-get install curl
curl --silent --location https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -
Then install with Debian (as root):
apt-get install --yes nodejs
After that, relaunch your terminal and type "npm" in your terminal.
The problem you're facing is due the need of super user rights during the installation. As others mentioned, you could do it via the sudo command and the manual installer.
Either way, there're several ways to install node in *unix platforms in a safer way without the need of super user rights using NVM (Node Version Manager).
Steps:
$ wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.25.4/install.sh | bash
$ nvm install 0.10
Also, you can find different techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo.

Gulp global installation not possible [duplicate]

NodeJS interpreter name(node) on Ubuntu has been renamed to nodejs because of a name conflict with another package. Here's what the readme. Debian says:
The upstream name for the Node.js interpreter command is "node".
In Debian the interpreter command has been changed to "nodejs".
This was done to prevent a namespace collision: other commands use
the same name in their upstream, such as ax25-node from the "node"
package.
Scripts calling Node.js as a shell command must be changed to instead
use the "nodejs" command.
However, using nodejs mucks up installing packages using npm. Package installation fails with the following error:
sh: 1: node: not found
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read /usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian
How do I make npm understand that nodejs is already installed on the system but the interpreter name is different?
TL;DR:
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
First of all let me clarify the situation a bit. In summer 2012 Debian maintainers decided to rename Node.js executable to prevent some kind of namespace collision with another package. It was very hard decision for Debian Technical Committee, because it breaks backward compatibility.
The following is a quote from Committee resolution draft, published in Debian mailing list:
The nodejs package shall be changed to provide /usr/bin/nodejs, not /usr/bin/node. The package should declare a Breaks: relationship with
any packages in Debian that reference /usr/bin/node.
The nodejs source package shall also provide a nodejs-legacy binary package at Priority: extra that contains /usr/bin/node as a symlink to
/usr/bin/nodejs. No package in the archive may depend on or recommend
the nodejs-legacy package, which is provided solely for upstream
compatibility. This package declares shall also declare a Conflicts:
relationship with the node package.
<...>
Paragraph 2 is the actual solution for OP's issue. OP should try to install this package instead of doing symlink by hand. Here is a link to this package in Debian package index website.
It can be installed using sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy.
I have not found any information about adopting the whole thing by NPM developers, but I think npm package will be fixed on some point and nodejs-legacy become really legacy.
Try linking node to nodejs. First find out where nodejs is
whereis nodejs
Then soft link node to nodejs
ln -s [the path of nodejs] /usr/bin/node
I am assuming /usr/bin is in your execution path. Then you can test by typing node or npm into your command line, and everything should work now.
You can also install Nodejs using NVM or Nodejs Version Manager There are a lot of benefits to using a version manager. One of them being you don't have to worry about this issue.
Instructions:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
Once the prerequisite packages are installed, you can pull down the nvm installation script from the project's GitHub page. The version number may be different, but in general, you can download and install it with the following syntax:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.16.1/install.sh | sh
This will download the script and run it. It will install the software into a subdirectory of your home directory at ~/.nvm. It will also add the necessary lines to your ~/.profile file to use the file.
To gain access to the nvm functionality, you'll need to log out and log back in again, or you can source the ~/.profile file so that your current session knows about the changes:
source ~/.profile
Now that you have nvm installed, you can install isolated Node.js versions.
To find out the versions of Node.js that are available for installation, you can type:
nvm ls-remote
. . .
v0.11.10
v0.11.11
v0.11.12
v0.11.13
v0.11.14
As you can see, the newest version at the time of this writing is v0.11.14. You can install that by typing:
nvm install 0.11.14
Usually, nvm will switch to use the most recently installed version. You can explicitly tell nvm to use the version we just downloaded by typing:
nvm use 0.11.14
When you install Node.js using nvm, the executable is called node. You can see the version currently being used by the shell by typing:
node -v
The comeplete tutorial can be found here
Install nvm first using:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.11.1/install.sh | bash
Run command
source ~/.profile
Now run this and this will show will all installed or other versions of packages:
nvm ls-remote
Installed packages will be in green. Install whatever version you want:
nvm install 6.0.0
Check where is not installed:
which node
Check current version:
node -v
n=$(which node);
n=${n%/bin/node};
chmod -R 755 $n/bin/*;
sudo cp -r $n/{bin,lib,share} /usr/local
sudo apt-get --purge remove node
sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs-legacy
sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
source ~/.profile
Combined the accepted answer with source ~/.profile from the comment that has been folded and some clean up commands before. Most likely you will also need to sudo apt-get install npm after.
for me problem was solved by,
sudo apt-get remove node
sudo apt-get remove nodejs
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
alias node=nodejs
rm -r /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/localstack/node_modules
npm install -g npm#latest || sudo npm install -g npm#latest
Here's another approach I use since I like n for easy switching between node versions.
On a new Ubuntu system, first install the 'system' node:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
Then install n module globally:
npm install -g n
Since the system node was installed first (above), the alternatives system can be used to cleanly point to the node provided by n. First make sure the alternatives system has nothing for node:
update-alternatives --remove-all node
Then add the node provided by n:
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/local/bin/node 1
Next add node provided by the system (the one that was installed with curl):
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/bin/nodejs 2
Now select the node provided by n using the interactive menu (select /usr/local/bin/node from the menu presented by the following command):
update-alternatives --config node
Finally, since /usr/local/bin usually has a higher precedence in PATH than /usr/bin, the following alias must be created (enter in your .bashrc or .zshrc) if the alternatives system node is to be effective; otherwise the node installed with n in /usr/local/bin takes always precedence:
alias node='/usr/bin/node'
Now you can easily switch between node versions with n <desired node version number>.
On Linux Mint 17, I tried both solutions (creating a symlink or using the nodejs-legacy package) without success.
The only thing that finally worked for me was using the ppa from Chris Lea:
sudo apt-get purge node-*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
This installed node version 10.37 and npm 1.4.28. After that, I could install packages globally.
As other folks already mention, I will suggest not to use "sudo apt-get" to install node or any development library. You can download required version from https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.2/ and setup you own environment.
I will recommend tools like nvm and n, to manage you node version. It is very convenient to switch and work with these modules.
https://github.com/creationix/nvm
https://github.com/tj/n
Or write basic bash to download zip/tar, extract move folder and create a soft link. Whenever you need to update, just point the old soft link to new downloaded version.
Like I have created for my own, you can refer:
https://github.com/deepakshrma/NodeJs-4.0-Reference-Guide/blob/master/nodejs-installer.sh
#Go to home
cd ~
#run command
#New Script
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deepakshrma/NodeJs-4.0-Reference-Guide/master/nodejs-installer.sh
bash nodejs-installer.sh -v lts
#here -v or --version can be sepecific to 0.10.37 or it could be latest/lts
#Examples
bash nodejs-installer.sh -v lts
bash nodejs-installer.sh -v latest
bash nodejs-installer.sh -v 4.4.2
Simple solution from here
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash --
sudo apt-get install nodejs
You can specify version by changing setup_x.x value, for example to setup_5.x
Your System is not able to detect the path node js binary.
1.which node
2.Then soft link node to nodejs
ln -s [the path of nodejs] /usr/bin/node
I am assuming /usr/bin is in your execution path. Then you can test by typing node or npm into your command line, and everything should work now.
Uninstall whatever node version you have
sudo apt-get --purge remove node
sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs-legacy
sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs
install nvm (Node Version Manager) https://github.com/creationix/nvm
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh | bash
Now you can install whatever version of node you want and switch between the versions.
I fixed it unlinking /usr/sbin/node (which is linked to ax25-node package), then I have create a link to nodejs using this on command line
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
Because package such as karma doesn't work with nodejs name, however changing the first line of karma script from node to nodejs, but I prefer resolve this issue once and for all
For me the fix was removing the node* packages and also the npm packages.
Then a fresh install as:
sudo apt-get install autoclean
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
npm install
Problem is not in installer
replace nodejs with node or change the path from /usr/bin/nodejs to /usr/bin/node
This is the your node is not properly install, first you need to uninstall the node then install again.
To install the node this may help you
http://array151.com/blog/nodejs-tutorial-and-set-up/
after that you can install the packages easily. To install the packages this may help you
http://array151.com/blog/npm-node-package-manager/
you can create a link ln -s nodejs node in /usr/bin
hope this solves your problem.
node -v // first check it's install or not
npm -v
sudo apt install npm
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash –
sudo apt-get install nodejs
then check
node -v or node –version
npm -v or npm –version
or you can remove package.lock json file / node_modules than run npm i
I hope it'll work fine
steps : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/installation-of-node-js-on-linux/
Faced same issue, steps below worked for me.
Install curl on your system then run NVM installer script.
sudo apt install curl
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash
Load the environment
source ~/.profile
Install the supported version of Node.js.
nvm install 16.15.1
Confirm the installation
node -v

Cannot install NodeJs: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

I'm trying to install nodeJs into my Ubuntu 14.04 in order to use GruntJs.
I've read about Ubuntu different way of doing it (issues?), so this is what I've done in order to install it:
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
Typing grunt after that I've got the error:
/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory
So, I've tried:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get update
And trying again, and still getting the error, I've tried:
sudo add-apt-repository https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js/
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
I've got this message:
nodejs is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade.
I did try a cleanup just in case:
sudo apt-get autoremove
But nope, the error is still there: when I type grunt I still get /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory
What should I do?
Doing a symlink solves the issue:
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
(My thanks and +1 vote to bodokaiser's answer).
The issue is not with the version of node. Instead, it is the way NodeJS is installed by default in Ubuntu. When running a Node application in Ubuntu you have to run nodejs somethign.js instead of node something.js
So the application name called in the terminal is nodejs and not node. This is why there is a need for a symlink to simply forward all the commands received as node to nodejs.
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
if you are using nvm node version manager, use this command to create a symlink:
sudo ln -s "$(which node)" /usr/bin/node
sudo ln -s "$(which npm)" /usr/bin/npm
The first command creates a symlink for node
The second command creates a symlink for npm
I think you should upgrade lastest node version
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
if you are able to access node on ubuntu terminal using nodejs command,then this problem can be simply solved using
-creating a symbolic link of nodejs and node using
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
and this may solve the problem
In my case, installing nodejs-legacy solved the issue.
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
Just do
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
And it will start working.
If you already have nodejs installed (check with which nodejs) and don't want to install another package, you can, as root:
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/bin/nodejs 99
I've found this is often a misnaming error, if you install from a package manager you bin may be called nodejs so you just need to symlink it like so
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
Depending on how you installed your node, most of the time it might not be in /usr/bin/, in my own case it was I used nvm to install so my node was in ./nvm/versions.
Using this command which node I found out the path, but to make the work easier you can run this command.
nodepath=$(which node); sudo ln -s $nodepath /usr/bin/node
the above command will get the location of your node and create a link for you.
When I was using gulp i got this error.
~$ gulp
/usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory
This was removed by executing following command you have to keep in mind that /usr/bin directory has all permissions.
~$ ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
this works for me..
Follow these commands to fix the problem.
In a terminal:
Clean the entire NPM cache:
$ sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
Install the latest stable version of Node.js:
sudo n stable
Now the latest version of Node.js was installed. Check the version using:
node -v
There are two solutions to this:
a) Set your PATH variable to include "/usr/local/bin"
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
b) Create a symlink to "/usr/bin" which is already in your PATH
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
I hope it helps.
While ln -s is the obvious easiest fix, a piece of explanation:
Because of a conflict with another package, the executable from the
Ubuntu repositories is called nodejs instead of node. Keep this in
mind as you are running software.
This advice comes up, when installing sudo apt-get install nodejs.
So some other known tool (I don't know what it does. While being known to ubuntu repositories, it is not installed by default in 16.04) occupies that namespace.
Would have been nice, if Ubuntu had offered an advice how to fix this 'cleanly', if not by doing by hand what otherwise the package would do. (a collision remains a collision... if+when it would occur)
In case it's installed by using snap,
sudo ln -sfn /snap/node/current/bin/node /usr/bin/node
sudo PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" npm install -g <package-name>
For my case link did NOT work as follow
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
But you can open /usr/local/bin/lessc as root, and change the first line from node to nodejs.
-#!/usr/bin/env node
+#!/usr/bin/env nodejs
Just rename the command or file name ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node by this command
For me the accepted answer did not yet work. I started off as suggested here:
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
After doing this I was getting the following error:
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:85
let notifier = require('update-notifier')({pkg})
^^^
SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class)
not yet supported outside strict mode
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)
at startup (node.js:136:18)
at node.js:966:3
The solution was to download the most recent version of node from https://nodejs.org/en/download/ .
Then I did:
sudo tar -xf node-v10.15.0-linux-x64.tar.xz --directory /usr/local --strip-components 1
Now the update was finally successful: npm -v changed from 3.2.1 to 6.4.1
sudo nautilus
Open file manager as admin. Go to /usr/bin and search node.That might have been broken link, so delete it. No try installing your package.
It might work -worked for me
it's been 7 years ago and the problems still relevant and occurred.
Oke here my problem, it's similar but not exactly the same.
When I call this command from Jenkins
ssh root#xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx "pm2 restart app"
then error /usr/bin/env Node No Such file or directory
Then here my solution:
on server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
It relink /usr/bin/node
First:
I remove the existing one with command "rm -f /usr/bin/node"
Second:
I create new link with this command
"ln -s /root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.4/bin/node /usr/bin/node"
Node version it's depends on your installation. May it help.
THe bottom line for this error is link of node.
For those who have installed NodeJS with nvm.
If like me you have installed, uninstalled, reinstalled some versions you simply need to do this :
nvm use v14.21.1
Or whatever version you are using.
This will recreate the links to node and npm commands that where lost during your 'cleanup' :D

Can't use NVM from root (or sudo)

I've noticed that my application uses different version of NodeJS when running from sudo.
$ node -v
v0.10.23
$ sudo node -v
v0.11.8-pre
This v0.11.8-pre caused me some problems, so I definitely don't want to use it, but I can't change it for root.
$ sudo nvm use v0.10.23
sudo: nvm: command not found
I've tried to install nvm from root user, but got error "NVM already installed", but still nvm not found when running from sudo. What is my problem?
My solution is to create symbolic links from the versions of node and npm I'm using to /usr/local/bin:
sudo ln -s "$NVM_DIR/versions/node/$(nvm version)/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/node"
sudo ln -s "$NVM_DIR/versions/node/$(nvm version)/bin/npm" "/usr/local/bin/npm"
This makes npm and node available to all users.
The below list of commands (source: digitalocean) seems to fix the problem
WARNING!!!! In some circumstances, these commands can break your system! Make sure you know what do these command do!!! related
n=$(which node); \
n=${n%/bin/node}; \
chmod -R 755 $n/bin/*; \
sudo cp -r $n/{bin,lib,share} /usr/local
The above command is a bit complicated, but all it's doing is copying whatever version of node you have active via nvm into the /usr/local/ directory (where user installed global files should live on a linux VPS) and setting the permissions so that all users can access them.
The fundamental reason is because nvm is not a real program. It's a bash function that gets loaded in the user's .profile, .bashrc, or ... So sudo doesn't automatically pick it up from the $PATH like most other programs.
An alternative node version manager is n: https://github.com/tj/n . That is a real program, so sudo will pick it up via the $PATH without any hacks (as long as sudo has /usr/local/bin in its $PATH).
sudo npm install -g n # install 'n' globally
which n # should be /usr/local/bin/n
sudo n lts # need sudo to switch node versions
node --version # v6.10.0
sudo node --version # v6.10.0
Your problem is, that nvm is not in the path when you use sudo.
So type
$ which nvm
and the result will be something like
/home/abc/mynvm/nvm
Try again now with sudo:
sudo /home/abc/mynvm/nvm use v0.10.23
I assume you then run into the issue that the root user can't find the 0.10.13-version, but lets see the next error message...
According to README
When using nvm you do not need sudo to globally install a module with npm -g, so instead of doing sudo npm install -g grunt, do instead npm install -g grunt
Need sudo npm?
In my case, I need to sudo npm run start which needs the access to some file requiring root access. According to this issue,
You don't use sudo. You should instead chmod/chown the file so that the user that has nvm has access to the file;.
In sum
The maintainer of nvm strongly believe we don't need to sudo :P
I had your problem too. Finally I have worked around it. Here is my solution:
Uninstall nvm and nodejs. Here are some helpful links: Uninstallation of nvm. If you installed nodejs using apt-get, you can uninstall it with the command apt-get purge nodejs.
Install a global nvm. See this page : nvm global. As it says, "Standard nvm has known difficulties working in multi-user or rooted environments."
After restarting your terminal, you can run the command sudo nvm ls.
$ sudo bash -ic "nvm use stable; npm -v"
Now using node v6.3.1 (npm v3.10.3)
3.10.3
By extending #SimpleJ solution I have created a useful bash script that could be used to link all binaries from actual nvm bin dir to /usr/local/bin:
#!/bin/bash
. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
DIR=$NVM_DIR/versions/node/$(nvm version)/bin/*
DEST=/usr/local/bin
for filename in $DIR; do
filename=$(basename $filename)
DEST_FILE=$DEST/$filename
echo "Copying $filename to $DEST_FILE"
sudo ln -sf "$NVM_DIR/versions/node/$(nvm version)/bin/$filename" "$DEST_FILE"
done
I have tried the same on my machine where I have nvm as well and I have a slighlty different response:
$ sudo node --version
sudo: node: command not found
My guess is that you have installed node 0.11 outside of nvm. (Via package manager or even from source)
Therefore, running node via sudo would pick up this standalone node instead.
Does that make sense or am I mistaken?
The easiest solution to this will likely be to just hit the nvm.sh executable wherever it is.
sudo /home/ubuntu/.nvm/nvm.sh install node
This works fine for me (assuming that's the install path).
The full install procedure would look like
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash
export NVM_DIR="/home/ubuntu/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
And then you can run the command above to hit the newly installed nvm.sh
I wanted to just install latest node-js from NVM API, without going for additional packages-purged versions. So I was looking to SUDO nvm install-latest-npm. Mb this will work for you - it definetely worked for me without installing/removing any apts. (Obviously change YOUR_USER_DIRECTORY for something suitable on ur system)
sudo /home/YOUR_USER_DIRECTORY/.nvm/nvm.sh | nvm install-latest-npm
Install nvm globally with
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | sudo bash

Installing NPM on AWS EC2

Working on Ec2 on AWS.
I have installed Node.js and it works fine.
But the problem arises when trying to install npm.
I am using the following command to install it:
sudo curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
But the install seems to freeze...
I get "fetching: http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.106.tgz" at the prompt and it stays on like this.
Have any idea what is going on here?
sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel
Follow this AWS Tutorial that uses Node Version Manager.
Node Version Manager (NVM) lets you install multiple versions of Node.js and switch between them.
Here are the steps:
Install NVM
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash
Activate NVM
. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
Install Node (choose version)
nvm install 15.0.0
Confirm Successful Installation
node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)"
To install NodeJS 6.x execute the following commands:
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
yum install nodejs --enablerepo=nodesource
Update
You can install NodeJS 7 and 8 in the same way. Just specify the version you need instead of 6 in the command above.
Update
To update to NodeJS 16 (or any other version) do the following:
rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource-el*
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
yum install nodejs --enablerepo=nodesource
Simplest way to install npm/nodejs on Amazon Linux 2 ec2 isntance:
First install epel repo using amazon-linux-extras command as below:
sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel
Now install npm and nodejs as below:
sudo yum install nodejs npm
you can verify the version of node and npm as below:
node -v
npm -v
PS. I've tested this on Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM) ec2 instance.
This guide worked perfectly: https://tecadmin.net/install-latest-nodejs-amazon-linux/
Make sure you have make
# sudo yum install -y gcc-c++ make
Install source
# curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
Install node
# sudo yum install -y nodejs
Note - you'll have to run sudo npm install to get the installs to work.
Firstly
sudo yum install make
You can run this to get zip of desired version of node
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.10.0/node-v8.10.0.tar.gz
Then you can unzip it like this
tar -xvf node-v8.10.0.tar.gz
then go in to the extracted directory and install node like this
./configure && make && sudo make install
I found his tutorial that has been very usefull to me: The last chapter explains how to install node and npm compiling it.
http://iconof.com/blog/how-to-install-setup-node-js-on-amazon-aws-ec2-complete-guide/#installNode
Get the http://npmjs.org/install.sh file on your system first and then execute it directly instead of piping with curl.
Use chmod +x install.sh to make it executable
Then run ./install.sh
I did it manually. Why mess with installers that break or don't put things where I want them? Such were the problems encountered while installing *node.js" on Amazon Web Services, that a manual install was the easy way to get the result I wanted.
I want a GLOBAL install of node and npm on AWS. By that I mean install should be put in a place like /usr/bin, so that all users have access. Surprisingly, AWS apparently doesn't give support to that idea. AWS encourages using nvm, node version manager, but that seems to always install in a user directory, and not a system level directory. After being frustrated when the "rpm" solutions (mentioned elsewhere) failed, I finally decided to just do the installation manually.
In a browser, go to nodejs.org download page:
https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Find a link that says:
All download options
Click through that; it goes to an index page with a URL like:
https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.16.1/
There I looked for the name that had "linux" and "x86" in the name.
I wrote this down, or select-and-copied, to get the correct spelling.
In my case it was:
node-v14.16.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
Putting the two parts together, I got the following URL:
https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.16.1/node-v14.16.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
So that's what is to be downloaded using curl.
I have a "temp" directory conveniently located in my home dir.
cd ~/temp
The download was accomplished with "curl". Note that the -o option was used to give the output file the name of my choosing. Of course, I chose to give it the same name as the web site file.
curl -o node-v14.16.1-linux-x64.tar.gz https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.16.1/node-v14.16.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
Untar the downloaded file.
tar xf node-v14.16.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
Conveniently, it creates its own directory. Go there.
cd node-v14.16.1-linux-x64 || exit 1;
Observe that the delivery consists of a relatively small number of files and directories (since node_modules is dealt with as a unit).
In my case, I had an old and bad implementation still installed, so the following commands were used to move aside any junk that might happen to be in the way. Some commands errored out because the old junk didn't exist. That's ok, error while moving to -OLD just means there is nothing to move; which is good.
Note: I put all these mv (move) commands into a script file, made it executable, and ran it as sudo. The alternative is to run each line individually as sudo.
mv /usr/bin/node /usr/bin/node-OLD
mv /usr/bin/npm /usr/bin/npm-OLD
mv /usr/bin/npx /usr/bin/npx-OLD
mv /usr/include/node /usr/include/node-OLD
mv /usr/lib/node_modules /usr/lib/node_modules-OLD
mv /usr/share/doc/node /usr/share/doc/node-OLD
mv /usr/share/man/man1/node.1 /usr/share/man/man1/node.1-OLD
mv /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp-OLD
An here is the actual install. Remember, this is occurring in the untarred directory, in my case node-v14.16.1-linux-x64.
mv bin/node /usr/bin
mv bin/npm /usr/bin
mv bin/npx /usr/bin
mv include/node /usr/include
mv lib/node_modules /usr/lib
mv share/doc/node /usr/share/doc
mv share/man/man1/node.1 /usr/share/man/man1
mv share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/
That's it, all finished.
Latest version 18 has dependency I think..
node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by node)
Finally I got solution by running by running following commands.
sudo apt-get remove nodejs
nvm install 16.15.1
v16.15.1 node version and npm v v16.15.1 is installed.
For same make sure nvm is installed in your machine.
This works for me:
sudo apt install npm
Edit as my answer wasn't pertinent anymore:
Try:
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -
yum -y install nodejs
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#enterprise-linux-and-fedora-core

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