I tend to use the binaries posted on nodejs.org instead of the binaries in
the debian/ubuntu repos. Here is how I get the latest node for a new linux
server I'm setting up:
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.1/node-v0.10.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xvf node-v0.10.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd node-v0.10.1-linux-x64
rm *
chown -R tim /usr/local
rsync -a ./ /usr/local/
Notice that I chown /usr/local to my user so that I can then use node and
npm without sudo. If you don't want to mess with global installs, then the
nvm script I wrote is great for switching between versions within your home
directory. <https://github.com/creationix/nvm>
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Daniel Toebe <dto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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