NodeJS is a popular application development and deployment framework written in Javascript programming language. It provides server-side libraries and functionalities to accomplish tasks. Npm is the NodeJs Package Manager which is used to install, update, delete packages to the current application. In this tutorial, we will learn how to update npm in different operating systems like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali, CentOS, RedHat, Fedora, Windows, Windows Server etc.
Install Npm Package For Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali
We can install npm
package with the apt
command where Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali distributions support.
$ sudo apt install npm

Install Npm Package For Fedora, CentOS, RedHat
For yum
based distributions we will use yum
or dnf
command like below where we will install npm
package.
$ sudo yum install npm
OR
$ sudo dnf install npm

Print Npm Version
Before updating the npm we will print the current npm version. We will use -v
option which will print major and minor version information about npm.
$ npm -v

We can see that the current major version of the installed npm is 5
and the minor version is 8
.
Update On Windows, Linux (Ubuntu,Debian,Mint,CentOS,RedHat,Fedora)
After installing the npm
package or executable we can use npm
command to update npm. We will use install
option with the -g
option and npm@latest
like below.
$ npm install -g npm@latest

Update On Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali with Package Manager
deb
based distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali provides apt
tool in order to update installed packages. We can use update
option with the npm
package like below.
$ sudo apt update npm
Update On Fedora, CentOS, RedHat with Package Manager
We can update npm
package with the following yum
or dnf
commands.
$ yum update npm
OR
$ dnf update npm
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