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

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

node.js install

apt-get install nodejs

Check node.js version

node -v

Outputs

v0.10.20

npm install

Above command should install npm.

Check npm version

npm -v

Outputs

1.4.3

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

apt-get install npm

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

21 Comments

1. 

   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.
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     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)
2. 

   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