Latest node.js & npm installation on Ubuntu 12.04

转自：https://rtcamp.com/tutorials/nodejs/node-js-npm-install-ubuntu/

Compiling is way to go for many but I am mostly in hurry so following works for me!

Adding Chris Lea’s Repo

Using Launchpad repo by Chris Lea just run following commands

[code]apt-get install python-software-properties
apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
apt-get update

node.js install

[code]apt-get install nodejs

Check node.js version

[code]node -v

Outputs

[code]v0.10.20

npm install

Above command should install npm.

Check npm version

[code]npm -v

Outputs

[code]1.4.3

If for some reason, if you see npm is not installed, you may try running:

[code]apt-get install npm

(updated on 20 Feb 2014. After this comment from dodyrw

21 Comments

ColinJanuary
8, 2014 at 3:34 am

Perfect, Thank you this was very helpful. I needed to install the latest node.js & npm to use the new ghost blogging platform.


Author
Rahul
BansalJanuary
8, 2014 at 1:36 pm

Glad to know that it helped. I wrote this while installinghttps://github.com/fzaninotto/uptime (another
good node.js project)



Paul VollmarFebruary
17, 2014 at 6:41 am

Followed your instructions, but I got the following error when trying to install npm:

user@system:~$ sudo apt-get install npm

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

npm : Depends: nodejs but it is not going to be installed

Depends: nodejs-dev

Depends: node-request but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-mkdirp but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-minimatch but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-semver but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-ini but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-graceful-fs but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-abbrev but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-nopt but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-fstream but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-rimraf but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-tar but it is not going to be installed

Depends: node-which but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Could it be my version of nodejs?

user@system:~$ node -v

v0.10.25