Cannot install NodeJs: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

Question

I\'m trying to install nodeJs into my Ubuntu 14.04 in order to use GruntJs.

I\'ve read about Ubuntu different way of doing it (issues?), so this is what I\'ve done i

Answer 1

If you already have nodejs installed (check with which nodejs) and don't want to install another package, you can, as root:

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/bin/nodejs 99

Answer 2

For me the accepted answer did not yet work. I started off as suggested here:

ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

After doing this I was getting the following error:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:85 let notifier = require('update-notifier')({pkg}) ^^^

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16) at Module._compile (module.js:374:25) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10) at startup (node.js:136:18) at node.js:966:3

The solution was to download the most recent version of node from https://nodejs.org/en/download/ .

Then I did:

sudo tar -xf node-v10.15.0-linux-x64.tar.xz --directory /usr/local --strip-components 1

Now the update was finally successful: npm -v changed from 3.2.1 to 6.4.1

Answer 3

In my case, installing nodejs-legacy solved the issue.

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy

Answer 4

Follow these commands to fix the problem.

In a terminal:

1. Clean the entire NPM cache:

   $ sudo npm cache clean -f
   

2. sudo npm install -g n
   

3. Install the latest stable version of Node.js:

   sudo n stable
   

Now the latest version of Node.js was installed. Check the version using:

node -v

Answer 5

if you are using nvm node version manager, use this command to create a symlink:

sudo ln -s "$(which node)" /usr/bin/node
sudo ln -s "$(which npm)" /usr/bin/npm

• The first command creates a symlink for node
• The second command creates a symlink for npm

Answer 6

For my case link did NOT work as follow

ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

But you can open /usr/local/bin/lessc as root, and change the first line from node to nodejs.

-#!/usr/bin/env node

+#!/usr/bin/env nodejs