Can somebody please help with installing NPM in Debian?
First I tried apt-get install npm but got this message:
Unable to locate package npm.
So I followed the installation steps for Debian from nodejs.org. The first command:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash - gave this message:
sudo command not found.
But if I install packages do not have to write sudo so I deleted it and got this message:
-E command not found
Any hints?
If you don't have sudo installed, then your command string should be this instead:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | bash - apt-get update && apt-get install -y nodejs Andrew's answer was really helpful but didn't work out of the box because debian still wanted to install the old version of nodejs not the one from the repo.
I fixed that by forcing debian to install latest version of nodejs
I ran apt-cache policy nodejs to know the version of latest nodejs package Then once I figured that out I ran apt install "nodejs=<latest_version>" at the time of writing it was apt install "nodejs=9.11.2-1nodesource1"
