Can't update nodejs in 18.04

Question

I got this message when trying to update nodejs and nodejs-dev (with --with-new-pkgs option) in Ubuntu 18.04.

 The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libssl-dev : Conflicts: libssl1.0-dev but 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.1 is going to be installed
              Recommends: libssl-doc but it is not going to be installed
 libssl1.0-dev : Conflicts: libssl-dev but 1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.1 is going to be installed
E: Broken packages

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/408425/trying-to-install-debian-package-npm-makes-apt-get-to-remove-libssl-dev — Kristopher Ives, Oct 01 '18 at 01:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '18 at 04:55

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Use n module from npm in order to upgrade node

sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable

To upgrade to latest version (and not current stable) version, you can use

sudo n latest

To undo:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall nodejs-legacy     # fix /usr/bin/node
sudo n rm 6.0.0     # replace number with version of Node that was installed
sudo npm uninstall -g n

answered Oct 01 '18 at 04:55

enrique glez

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Make sure you've opened a new terminal window before node -v – Alexey Demin Oct 12 '20 at 20:15

Can't update nodejs in 18.04

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