Kent Borg <kentb...@borg.org> asks: > But I can't figure out how to install npm. When I search for > installation instructions they all seem to want me to pipe a curl > command into a sudo bash. Huh? That's scary as hell.
Let others do the installation for you: my go-to technology for this is Docker. First get docker installed (https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/debian/). Then look for the official containerized release of node here: https://hub.docker.com/r/library/node/. Choose which versions of Node and Debian that you want (look among the available tags); example 8.9.4 on stretch. To run it, really all you need to type is this: docker run -d --name nodejs node:latest sleep 7d docker exec -it nodejs bash You'll be at a shell prompt that includes Node.JS and npm. You can use the "--volume" parameter to map a working directory into the container and to map the modules you decide to install (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm), enabling you to edit files on your host and work with them at the container's bash prompt. Docker's drop-dead simple to learn, and it solves so many of these installation headaches. -rich _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss