E: Unable to locate package npm

Question

When I try to install npm with sudo apt-get install npm, I got following error:

E: Unable to locate package npm

Why

Answer 1

This will resolve your error. Run these commands in your terminal. These commands will add the older versions. You can update them later or you can change version here too before running these commands one by one.

sudo apt-get install build-essential
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.16/node-v0.8.16.tar.gz
tar -xzf node-v0.8.16.tar.gz
cd node-v0.8.16/
./configure
make
sudo make install