npm can't be installed

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shubham@shubham$ npm
The program 'npm' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install npm

shubham@shubham$ sudo apt-get install npm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
npm is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

shubham@shubham$ npm
The program 'npm' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install npm

shubham@shubham$ ls
Desktop    examples.desktop  Music      Pictures   tmp
Documents  firstProject      nohup.out  Public     Videos
Downloads  goibibo_ugc       npm        Templates  WebstormProjects

i aslo wrote "hash -r" due to which above command are coming.Before this it was giving npm command not found. — Shubham Srivastava, Jun 26 '15 at 09:05
npm: Installed: 1.3.10~dfsg-1 Candidate: 1.3.10~dfsg-1 Version table: *** 1.3.10~dfsg-1 0 500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status — Shubham Srivastava, Jun 26 '15 at 09:06
shubham@shubham-Vostro-3460:~$ which npm shubham@shubham-Vostro-3460:~$ — Shubham Srivastava, Jun 26 '15 at 09:08
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games — Shubham Srivastava, Jun 26 '15 at 09:12
The following packages will be REMOVED: npm* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded. After this operation, 1,559 kB disk space will be freed. — Shubham Srivastava, Jun 26 '15 at 09:19
(Reading database ... 200332 files and directories currently installed.) Removing npm (1.3.10~dfsg-1) ... Purging configuration files for npm (1.3.10~dfsg-1) ... Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.5) ... Processing 4 removed doc-base files... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... — Shubham Srivastava, Jun 26 '15 at 09:19
Dude you are a life saver.thanks.Does this install the latest version of npm? — Shubham Srivastava, Jun 26 '15 at 09:27

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '15 at 09:27

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Based to all comments above, try this:

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install npm

answered Jun 26 '15 at 09:27

Maythux

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didn't work for me – eyurdakul Feb 09 '17 at 15:20

npm can't be installed

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