На этот вопрос уже есть ответ здесь:
Моя среда немного отличается. Я обновлялся с 14.04 по 16.04 по 18.04.
На моем настольном ПК 18.04 установлен npm.
$ npm -version
3.5.2
# nodejs -v
v8.10.0
# apt install npm
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.
Сервер Ubuntu 18.04 Node.js и установка npm
sudo apt remove --purge nodejs npm
sudo apt clean
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt install -f
sudo apt autoremove
Найдите последнюю версию в https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall Последняя версия 10.x теперь
sudo apt install curl
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
npm -version
6.1.0
nodejs -v
v10.7.0