Bdtyktl

Ubuntu version is 18.04.1 LTS

I need to upgrade node version. So following some forum recommendations I've uninstalled npm and node:

sudo npm uninstall npm -g

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nodejs

install latest version of node:

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | bash -

sudo apt update

sudo apt install nodejs

checking results:

> node --version

v11.6.0

> npm -v

bash: /usr/local/bin/npm: No such file or directory

trying to fix:

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: node-abbrev (>= 1.0.4) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-ansi (>= 0.3.0-2) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-ansi-color-table but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-archy but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-block-stream but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-fstream (>= 0.1.22) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-fstream-ignore but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-github-url-from-git but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-glob (>= 3.1.21) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-graceful-fs (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-inherits but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-ini (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-lockfile but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-lru-cache (>= 2.3.0) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-minimatch (>= 0.2.11) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-mkdirp (>= 0.3.3) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-gyp (>= 0.10.9) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-nopt (>= 3.0.1) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-npmlog but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-once but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-osenv but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-read but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-read-package-json (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-request (>= 2.25.0) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-retry but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-rimraf (>= 2.2.2) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-semver (>= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-sha but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-slide but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-tar (>= 0.1.18) but it is not going to be installed

       Depends: node-underscore 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.

Question

Is any ideas, how to fix broken packages and install npm of latest version?

More details:

following answer.

dpkg --get-selections | grep hold

prints nothing.

> sudo aptitude -f install node

env: ‘aptitude’: No such file or directory

different answers have not helped me.

I have not managed my issues with broken packages (it seems hard to detect ones, but hoping somebody knows answer). But I've managed issue with node and npm.

To install node i've used article how to manage nodes with nvm.

install nvm:

> curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash

> source ~/.bashrc # to reload env

check accessibe versions for install:

> nvm ls-remote # to find latest stable version

> nvm install v11.6.0 # install node

and now I've installed:

> node -v

v11.6.0

> npm -v

6.5.0-next.0

Npm can be updated following their instruction:

npm install npm@latest -g