Unable to upgrade to v8.8.0

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System

• Version: 8.7.0

• Platform: Linux

• Distro:

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=artful
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Pop!_OS 17.10 (Artful Aardvark)"

• Kernel:

4.13.0-16-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 11 18:35:14 UTC 2017

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Issue

Steps Attempted to Resolve

• Reinstalling nodejs

• Removing nodejs and deleting /usr/lib/node_modules

• Running these commands

   curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
   sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

• Installing using apt/ apt-get followed by running apt-get clean and apt-get -f install.

• Installing the nodejs_8.8.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb in /var/cache/apt/archives using both dpkg -i and gdebi followed by running dpkg --configure -a

• Installing via nvm as my last resort. The reason I use the method of installing nodejs via apt is because it's a hit or miss (mostly miss) when it comes to installing it using nvm as I tend to get the following StdErr quite frequent.

  nvm needs curl or wget to proceed

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Output

In spite of the workarounds that I have tried, this is the consistent output that I get.

• apt output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nodejs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 57.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x artful/main amd64 nodejs amd64 8.8.0-1nodesource1 [12.5 MB]
Fetched 12.5 MB in 0s (17.3 MB/s)
(Reading database ... 234340 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nodejs_8.8.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nodejs (8.8.0-1nodesource1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_8.8.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/bin/node.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_8.8.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

• gdebi output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

Node.js event-based server-side javascript engine
 Node.js is similar in design to and influenced by systems like
 Ruby's Event Machine or Python's Twisted.
 .
 It takes the event model a bit further - it presents the event
 loop as a language construct instead of as a library.
 .
 Node.js is bundled with several useful libraries to handle server tasks :
 System, Events, Standard I/O, Modules, Timers, Child Processes, POSIX,
 HTTP, Multipart Parsing, TCP, DNS, Assert, Path, URL, Query Strings.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
(Reading database ... 234340 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack nodejs_8.8.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nodejs (8.8.0-1nodesource1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive nodejs_8.8.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb (--install):
 unable to open '/usr/bin/node.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nodejs_8.8.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb

[mscdex]

General help questions should be posted to the nodejs/help issue tracker instead. This issue tracker is for reporting bugs and submitting feature requests for node core. Issues with npm or other tools that use node should be posted to the appropriate issue tracker for those tools, unless it can be proven that the issue is in fact with node core and not the tool in question.