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Upgrading nodejs on Ubuntu: How to fix broken pipe error? #62

Closed tango4567 closed 1 year ago

tango4567 commented 1 year ago 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  nodejs
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/30.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 193 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 249732 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nodejs_20.5.1-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nodejs (20.5.1-deb-1nodesource1) over (12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_20.5.1-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/include/node/common.gypi', which is also in package libnode-dev 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_20.5.1-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
tango4567 commented 1 year ago

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Node.js v20.x: Using Ubuntu

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash - &&\
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

After getting pipe error please follow below instructions Update apt, fix the install, remove nodejs and the nodejs-doc packages

sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs