sudo apt install npm it is not working “The following packages have unmet dependencies”

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Building dependency tree
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The following packages have unmet dependencies: npm: Depends: nodejs (>= 6.11~)

   Depends: node-ansistyles (>= 0.1.3~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-aproba (>= 1.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-archy (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-cacache (>= 10.0.4~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-bluebird (>= 3.5.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-call-limit (>= 1.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-chownr (>= 1.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-config-chain (>= 1.1.11~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-detect-indent (>= 5.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-detect-newline (>= 2.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-editor (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-fs-vacuum (>= 1.2.10~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-fs-write-stream-atomic (>= 1.0.10~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-glob (>= 7.1.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-graceful-fs (>= 4.1.11~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-has-unicode (>= 2.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-hosted-git-info (>= 2.6~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-iferr (>= 0.1.5~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-inflight (>= 1.0.6~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-inherits (>= 2.0.3~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-ini (>= 1.3.5~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-npm-package-arg but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-promzard but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-jsonstream (>= 1.3.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-json-parse-better-errors (>= 1.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-lazy-property (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-libnpx (>= 10.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-lockfile (>= 1.0.3~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-lru-cache (>= 4.1.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-mississippi (>= 3.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-mkdirp (>= 0.3.3) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-move-concurrently (>= 1.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-nopt but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-normalize-package-data (>= 2.4~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-gyp (>= 3.6.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-resolve-from (>= 4.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-encoding but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-errno but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-npmlog (>= 4.1.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-once (>= 1.4~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-opener (>= 1.4.3~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-osenv (>= 0.1.5~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-path-is-inside (>= 1.0.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-promise-inflight (>= 1.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-ansi but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-qw (>= 1.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-read (>= 1.0.7~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-read-package-json (>= 2.0.13~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-request (>= 2.83~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-retry (>= 0.10.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-rimraf (>= 2.6.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-safe-buffer (>= 5.1.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-semver (>= 5.5~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-sha (>= 2.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-slide (>= 1.1.6~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-sorted-object (>= 2.0.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-from2 but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-stream-iterate but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-ssri (>= 5.2.4~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-strip-ansi (>= 4.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-tar (>= 4.4~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-text-table (>= 0.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-uid-number (>= 0.0.6~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-unique-filename (>= 1.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-unpipe (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-boxen (>= 1.2.1~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-import-lazy but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-is-npm (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-latest-version (>= 3.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-semver-diff (>= 2.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-xdg-basedir (>= 3.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-validate-npm-package-name (>= 3.0~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-which (>= 1.3~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-wrappy (>= 1.0.2~) but it is not going to be installed
   Depends: node-write-file-atomic (>= 2.3~) but it is not going to be installed

Answer 1

I think this is a duplicate of several similar posts. As I recall, some linux distros don't work well with npm/node.js for installing with apt-get.

Check out, for example, this answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/39981888/10826737