Installing NodeJs on Kubuntu 22.04

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I cannot get this thing to work. I was following these instructions from digitalocean:

Then, I am getting this error messages:

sudo apt install nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nodejs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/28.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 179 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 332991 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nodejs_18.7.0-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nodejs (18.7.0-deb-1nodesource1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_18.7.0-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp', which is also in package libnode72:amd64 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_18.7.0-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I found this article:

Upgrading nodejs on Ubuntu: How to fix broken pipe error?

But its an older version of Ubuntu. I need some help to perform this project.

Does this answer your question? [dpkg error: "trying to overwrite file, which is also in..."](https://askubuntu.com/questions/176121/dpkg-error-trying-to-overwrite-file-which-is-also-in). Perhaps you did not clean up some previous attempt to install Node, and the remainders of that attempt is blocking your current attempt. Many people make that mistake once. — user535733, Aug 06 '22 at 02:05
@user535733 `sudo apt remove nodejs npm` does not uninstall the older versions of nodejs? Should I run `sudo apt purge nodejs*` and `sudo apt purge npm*` — krillavilla, Aug 06 '22 at 02:52
@user535733 wouldnt force `sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite ` break my system? in my case `sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp` — krillavilla, Aug 06 '22 at 02:56
You don't need to purge using wildcards (that's *dangerous*!). Your output clearly tells you exactly which package needs to be removed. It's possible that --force-overwrite might break your system. You should read the other answers, too, before making a decision. — user535733, Aug 06 '22 at 02:58
`krillavilla@OMEN:~$ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp dpkg-deb: error: '/usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp' is not a Debian format archive dpkg: error processing archive /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp (--install): dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp` — krillavilla, Aug 06 '22 at 03:00
That output is expected, since your command was very wrong. DON'T leap to try the first thing you read -- that's how folks break their systems. This is NOT the kind of problem amenable to a magic incantation. It's actually very simple if you take a few minutes and *understand* the problem. — user535733, Aug 06 '22 at 03:01
@user535733 I apology for rushing. I just want to get this project out the way. — krillavilla, Aug 06 '22 at 03:17
I got confliced packages coming from `libnode72` which was older version amd64:12.22. I had to remove it first before installing Nodjs newer version — krillavilla, Aug 06 '22 at 03:20

Installing NodeJs on Kubuntu 22.04

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