Can not install npm

Question

I want to make an smart mirror, before I decide to buy a Raspberry pi I want to preview it on my old computer. I installed Raspberry pi (desktop version from homepage of Raspberry). Everything was fine, When I install nodejs from apt source package, it doesn’t have alias (syntax for npm). Then I followed others topic, they said check uname -a and go to nodejs homepage to download a compatible version.

Here is mine $uname -a Linux raspberry 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux Then I go to node homepage and download a version of Linux Binaries (ARM) V6 unpacked and copy all of them to /usr/local/ and checked it with command node -v &npm -v. I got this error messages /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3: No such file or directory.

I thought that was my computer is not compatible but when I tried it on virtualbox I still got same problem.

Answer 1

First you need to install gcc-6-arm-linux-gnueabihf:

apt-get install gcc-6-arm-linux-gnueabihf

That will provide the library file that is missing:

/usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3

I recommend installing Node.js via this method instead of dumping the executables into /usr/local:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

You can leave off the sudo parts if you are running as root.

After that's done, you can run those commands with no issues (it's lowercase -v for the version).

node -v
npm -v