Installation of Node Package Manager in Ubuntu

Hi,

In this blog article I would like to discuss the installation procedures for installing Node Package Manager shortly called as NPM in ubuntu.

Prerequisites
Name	Version	Download Page	Direct Link
Node	12.13.0 LTS	Node Package Manage Download Page	Click to Download Directly

This post mainly focuses on installation of Node-12.13.0 LTS and its working, the procedures followed for the installation of this version and the forth coming version of Node would remain the same.

Using the links given above in the prerequisite section download the package in one of your preferred locations and extract it.

Open up a terminal and execute the following commands one after the other...

Moving the prompt to the user's home directory

> cd

Editing the .bashrc file using gedit

> gedit .bashrc

In case if you do not have gedit text editor, you can use any text editor of your choice

Append the file with the following lines

NODE_HOME=<INSTALLATION-PATH-OF-NODE>
PATH=$PATH:$NODE_HOME/bin

* installation path is the location where you have extracted the node tar package

With that we have concluded the installation of Node

Use the following command to verify that the installation has happened correctly....

> which node

the above command would return the path of the executable as something shown in the picture given below...

> node --version

the above command would return the version of Node installed as given in the image below....

> which npm

the above command would return the path of the executable as something shown in the picture given below...

> npm --version

the above command would return the version of NPM installed as given in the image below....

With this we have concluded the installation of Node and NPM in Ubuntu.

Hope you had great time reading...

Ciao