nodejs latest version on my pc is not the latest

Question

i was going to start use reactjs when but i had this:

create-react-app myapp
You are running Node 9.11.2.
Create React App requires Node 14 or higher. 
Please update your version of Node.

i tried to update my node js by runing:

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nodejs is already the newest version (8.10.0~dfsg-2ubuntu0.4).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libllvm6.0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

My pc is 32 bit extensa 5635z my os is lubuntu

any help please?

Answer 1

To install the desired version of nodejs you can use the NodeSource Node.js Binary Distributions .

For Node.js v17.x:

# Using Ubuntu
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_17.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs