Learn how to install Node.js and NPM on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with this quick tutorial.
Find the latest version of Node.js through the apt repository.
sudo apt-cache show nodejs
The apt repository version is often outdated compared to the latest long-term support version available on the Node.js website. So we will install it from there instead.
Go to the Node.js website - https://nodejs.org/en/.
Click on the 'other downloads' link and navigate to 'install node.js via package manager'.
Go to this URL - https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md.
Scroll down until you find the LTS version of Node.js and proceed to the next step.
To install Node.js you will need to make sure you have curl installed.
curl --version
If you need to install curl -
sudo apt install curl
Now go back to the github page we opened and proceed to follow the instructions.
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Once this has run, you will want to check the version to confirm that node has installed as it should.
node --version
You can also check the NPM version as it was installed with Node in this case.
npm --version
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