Objective
The objective of this article is to install NPM on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver. NPM is the package manager for JavaScript.
Operating System and Software Versions
- Operating System: – Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
- Software: – 3.5.2 or higher
Requirements
Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo
command is required.
Difficulty
EASY
Conventions
- # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudo
command - $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Instructions
Install NPM on Ubuntu
The following linux command will install NPM on the Ubuntu 18.04 system. It is also recommended to install NPM alongside with the build-essential
package in case that NPM encounters a source package during module installations:
$ sudo apt install npm build-essential
Check for NPM version:
$ npm --version 3.5.2
Use NPM to install JavaScript module
To search all available modules with NPM enter:
$ npm search KEYWORD
To perform a module installation with NPM run:
$ npm install MODULE-NAME
To install a JavaScript module directly from GIT repository execute NPM with the URL of the actual module you wish to install.
For example the bellow command will install the express
module from its home git repository:
$ npm install git+https://git@github.com/visionmedia/express.git OR with SHH access $ npm install git+ssh://git@github.com/visionmedia/express.git