So I've tried to fix this my self for a couple hours and I feel I've made it worse. I am running Kbuntu 12.10, and trying to install nodejs and npm as a user not root so I can install the game closure framework. I had a version of node and npm installed as root. Then tried to install it again (without removing the old) via these instructions: http://tnovelli.net/blog/blog.2011-08-27.node-npm-user-install.html
Now when I type which npm I get nothing. However when I type which node i get/home/myusername/.local/bin/node. So I am assuming node is installed correctly. also when I type npm -v I get: The program 'npm' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install npm So I type sudo apt-get install npm and the response is: Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... DoneSome 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 (>= 0.6.19~dfsg1-3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: nodejs-dev Depends: node-node-uuid but it is not going to be installed 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. How can I fix this so I can install npm according to the link above? EDIT: after searching some more i tried sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update and even after that I still get the same message after attempting to apt-get npm -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
