Installing Bower on Ubuntu

Question

I\'m trying to install Bower on XUbuntu 13.10, following the instructions on the Bower home page, after doing sudo apt-get install npm and sudo npm install -g

Answer 1

on Ubuntu 12.04 and the packaged version of NodeJs is too old to install Bower using the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install nodejs

When this has installed, check the version:

npm --version
1.4.3

Now install Bower:

sudo npm install -g bower

This will fetch and install Bower globally.