Problems installing nodejs on Ubuntu 16.10

Question

could someone help me to understand why it fails to find these packages?

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libuv1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libuv1 nodejs
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 3.346 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14,1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/universe amd64 libuv1 amd64 1.9.1-1
  404  Not Found
Err:2 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/universe amd64 nodejs amd64 4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu5
  404  Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libu/libuv1/libuv1_1.9.1-1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/nodejs/nodejs_4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb  404  Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Answer 1

Try to install it like this

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Answer 2

Follow the Steps to install Nodejs using terminal.. Make sure your connected to internet

cd ~
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
nano nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt-get install nodejs

After Installing Check the Version... 
nodejs -v

Can also check the NPM version by 
npm -v

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-16-04

Answer 3

Or another way, you can use NVM to manage NodeJS version for your machine. NVM is stand for Node Version Manager.