sudo apt-get install npm error

When I was about to install nodejs I successfully ran these two commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

However, when I ran sudo-apt-get install npm it gave me this list of errors:

$ 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: node-abbrev (>= 1.0.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-ansi but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-archy but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-block-stream but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-fstream (>= 0.1.22) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-fstream-ignore but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-github-url-from-git but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-glob (>= 3.1.21) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-graceful-fs (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-inherits but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-ini (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-lockfile but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-lru-cache (>= 2.3.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-minimatch (>= 0.2.11) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-mkdirp (>= 0.3.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-gyp (>= 0.10.9) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-nopt (>= 2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-npmlog but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-once but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-osenv but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-read but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-read-package-json (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-request (>= 2.25.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-retry but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-rimraf (>= 2.2.2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-semver (>= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-sha but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-slide but it is not going to be installed Depends: node-tar (>= 0.1.18) 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.

I tried these:

EDIT:

this is not a proper way to install Node.js anyway, instead NVM (Node version manager) should be used. See here:

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4 Answers

check with following code :

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
npm install

to check version,

npm -v 

output will be like this

1.4.28

1

Try to use a method from here

curl -sL | sudo -E bash --

and then:

sudo apt-get install nodejs

After running command

sudo apt-get install aptitude

then

sudo aptitude install npm

solved my problem

Having run into my fair share of nodejs install issues and then trying to manage versions / npm etc., I came across this repo which has worked wonders for me.

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