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

sudo apt-get install nodejs

installs nodejs

sudo apt-get install npm

installs npm

sudo npm install bower -g

installs bower via npm

Answer 2

Ubuntu 16.04 and later

Bower is a package manager primarily for (but not limited to) front-end web development. In Ubuntu 16.04 and later Bower package manager can be quickly and easily installed from the Ubuntu Software app. Open Ubuntu Software, search for "bower" and click the Install button to install it. In all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:

sudo snap install bower --classic

Answer 3

At Least from Ubuntu 12.04, an old version (0.6.x) of Node is in the standard repository. To install, just run:

sudo apt-get install nodejs

NPM comes with latest version of nodejs. Once you have that, then run

sudo npm install bower -g

Should be good to go after that. You may need to run some updates, but it should be fairly straight forward.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

The published responses are correct but incomplete.

Git to install the packages we first need to make sure git is installed.

$ sudo apt install git-core

Bower uses Node.js and npm to manage the programs so lets install these.

$ sudo apt install nodejs

Node will now be installed with the executable located in /etc/usr/nodejs.

You should be able to execute Node.js by using the command below, but as ours are location in nodejs we will get an error No such file or directory.

$ /usr/bin/env node

We can manually fix this by creating a symlink.

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

Now check Node.js is installed correctly by using.

$ /usr/bin/env node
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Some users suggest installing legacy nodejs, this package just creates a symbolic link to binary nodejs.

$ sudo apt install nodejs-legacy

Now, you can install npm and bower

Install npm

$ sudo apt install npm

Install Bower

$ sudo npm install -g bower

Check bower is installed and what version you're running.

$ bower -v
1.8.0

Reference:

Install Bower Ubutu 14

Install Bower in Ubuntu

Install Bower

Answer 6

First of all install nodejs:

sudo apt-get install nodejs

Then install npm:

sudo apt-get install npm

Then install bower:

npm install -g bower

For any of the npm package tutorial visit: https://www.npmjs.com/

Here just search the package and you can find how to install, documentation and tutorials as well.

P.S. This is just a very common solution. If your problem still exists you can try the advanced one.