每当我尝试使用 NPM 或 nodejs 时，都会出现分段错误。 卸载并重新安装并不能解决它

Question

I tried to update nodejs using the following:

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

I have always successfully used this to update nodejs, however, the update failed this time. Now, whenever I run NPM or nodejs, I get a segmentation fault.

I tried uninstalling NPM and nodejs using many variations of:

sudo apt-get remove --purge npm
sudo apt-get remove --purge nodejs
sudo apt-get remove --purge node

And reinstalling them.

However, they never seem to uninstall. Whenever I type NPM or node, it says permission denied. When I use sudo, I get a segmentation fault.

$ which npm results in /usr/local/bin/npm and I get similar results with nodejs.

Is there a simple way to fix this? I'm very leery about manually removing packages. I've tried this on a personal machine in the past and messed up the package manager so badly that I had no choice but to reinstall Ubuntu. I would like to avoid doing that since this is on a development server.

Answer 1

The node binary was corrupt and Ubuntu was unable to unstall/uninstall node using the apt package manager. To solve this issue I just copied the node 12.13.0 binary file from another machine into /usr/local/bin on this machine. Now node and all node related modules (such as npm) work perfectly fine.

Answer 2

i had same problem, and simply fix it by: apt update then apt upgrade - HOPE THIS HELP -

Answer 3

just remove nodejs, use

sudo apt-get remove nodejs 

then go to /usr/local/bin and remove node, nodejs npm if exists:

sudo rm nodejs 
sudo rm npm 
sudo rm node 

reinstall nodejs with this link https://computingforgeeks.com/install-latest-node-js-and-npm-on-ubuntu-debian/