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lara
Asked: 2014-07-24 01:34:39 +0800 CST

Having trouble to find the node in ubuntu 14.04 after installing

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I installed the NodeJS in Ubuntu 14.04 by nvm by following this site Installing NodeJS Though I had the following problem as 

nvm ls
    sbin
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/sbin/alias’: Permission denied

Then I found to resolve this as (from NVM solution)

$ export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
$ echo $NVM_DIR
/home/roy/.nvm

Then It works fine.

Now the problem, I face is that if I restart or even open a new console, I can't find the node again.

roy@Croy:~$ node -version
The program 'node' can be found in the following packages:

 * node

 * nodejs-legacy

Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

I have to follow those steps,

I do nvm install 0.11.13 then it shows 

v0.11.13 is already installed.
Now using node v0.11.13

Here is my Stackoverflow question - the following answer is not working.

How to come out from here ?

14.04

7 Answers

  1. As seen here

    1. Run command:

      which node

      and in my case it displayed /usr/sbin/node.

    2. If it says command not found, skip to 3. Remove it by

      sudo rm /usr/sbin/node

    3. Run command:

      which nodejs

      In my case it displayed /usr/bin/nodejs

    4. Make a link

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

      OR

      sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/sbin/node
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  2. Run command:

    nodejs -v

    For more information: See here.

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  3. As seen here

    Because of a conflict with another package, the executable from the Ubuntu repositories is called nodejs instead of node. Keep this in mind as you are running software.

    user@xxx:~ $ node --version
The program 'node' can be found in the following packages:
* node
* nodejs-legacy
Ask your administrator to install one of them

user@xxx:~ $ nodejs --version
v0.10.25
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  4. Node has a different name in the current version, mine is v0.10.25.

    The current node is just nodejs.

    To use the old commands you have to create a symbolic link like this.

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

    and that's it.

    Run: node --version

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  5. The following line adds node to your $PATH:

    nvm alias default 5.1

    Use your installed node version.

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  6. How about using the official instructions from the nodejs site:

    For v6:

    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

    For v4:

    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

    I've tested these from Windows bash (via subsystem for Linux - 14.04) and it had the correct node alias. Running sudo apt-get install -y nodejs without first running the setup script will result in you getting node 0.10.

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  7. This is an old post. But I stumbled upon this when I faced the same problem with NPM on WSL2.

    I had to create a bash alias to point to the npm that I installed on ubuntu wsl.

    alias npm=/usr/bin/npm
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