npm : Depends: node-gyp (>= 0.10.9) but it is not going to be installed

Question

I want to install npm. I've updated everything but I can't fix the problem.

The message I get is:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 npm : Depends: node-gyp (>= 0.10.9) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Could you help me?

Bugs are reported already: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/npm/+bug/1517491 and bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/npm/+bug/1809828 . put a reference there to here. please mark yourself as affected if so. thank you — Vincent Gerris, Dec 05 '19 at 08:50

score 269 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '18 at 12:29

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I was able to install npm by doing following:

sudo apt-get install nodejs-dev node-gyp libssl1.0-dev

and

sudo apt-get install npm

answered Nov 14 '18 at 12:29

griever

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This is what fixed it, you rock – bhappy Feb 21 '19 at 08:25
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had issues on ubuntu 18.04 where nodejs installed but not npm, this fixed my problems – Manny265 Mar 26 '19 at 10:49
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To anyone applying this solution: make sure you review the changes before applying them, as it might remove some installed packages to resolve dependencies. In my case, Jasp and a couple more packages were removed in the process. – stragu Jun 02 '19 at 11:50
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Ubuntu 18.04:The following packages will be REMOVED: libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev – rcpa0 Jun 11 '19 at 17:45
First I had to do "sudo apt-get update", then followed this. – Austin Jun 29 '19 at 05:43
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Worked for me on 18.04.3 – MangoCat Nov 10 '19 at 13:56
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Works, but it uninstalled a lot of installed packages like the whole of ros-melodic. – Sagun Man Singh Shrestha Feb 20 '20 at 10:26
worked on ubuntu 18.04 . thank you . – ujjal das Mar 30 '20 at 03:33
apt-get update was enough for me. – Diego Alves Apr 23 '20 at 14:09
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As @SagunManSinghShrestha mentioned, it ruins ROS and Ignition installation. Read the long list of packages to be removed before you press Y. – Paul Jurczak Jun 08 '20 at 22:23
This command works great using on ubuntu 18.04 Virtualbox Machine for Odoo 10. – Didierh Oct 03 '20 at 10:15
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Ubuntu 20 does not work
E: Package 'nodejs-dev' has no installation candidate E: Package 'libssl1.0-dev' has no installation candidate
– Nijat Mursali Oct 04 '20 at 00:28
Fantastic. The best solution to solve this problem. Much obliged. – wbadry Oct 15 '20 at 12:51
It worked on my PC, thanks! – Dong Thang Jan 18 '21 at 06:13
You can make it work with ROS without removing the packages using an isolated environment with nodeenv. It really avoided me a headache. – Leonardo Mariga Apr 13 '21 at 05:22
E: Package 'nodejs-dev' has no installation candidate – alper Oct 17 '21 at 14:18

npm : Depends: node-gyp (>= 0.10.9) but it is not going to be installed

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