Gulp installation error on Laravel in Ubuntu

Question

I run npm install gulp in Ubuntu. Show this error:

My Server is Ubuntu 16.04.

Framework is Laravel 5.6.

ERROR: npm is known not to run on Node.js v4.2.6
Node.js 4 is supported but the specific version you're running has
a bug known to break npm. Please update to at least 4.7.0 to use this
version of npm. You can find the latest release of Node.js at https://nodejs.org/

I run node -v show this message: v4.2.6

I run sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade nodejs show this message:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nodejs is already the newest version (9.11.1-1nodesource1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

How to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Try this.. First, Uninstall completely nodejs and npm.

sudo apt remove nodejs npm

Then, reinstall it:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Refer: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions

Answer 2

Try:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install nodejs (you already have node so this step is probably not required) 
sudo npm install -g gulp 

That should resolve your issue.