Install NodeJS and NPM on Ubuntu
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Updated for Ubuntu 20.04
Install Nodejs 16.x and NPM
Check if there are newer versions on this github link
Run these 2 commands: (you will get asked for your root password)
$ curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Check that you got the most recent versions
As of this post (2021), it's NPM 7.21.0 and NodeJS v16.8.0
$ npm -v
5.3.0
$ node -v
v16.8.0
Fix permissions
This is to enable you to install stuff without using sudo
type: sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(npm config get prefix)/{lib/node_modules,bin,share}