Cannot install npm packages although i have latter version of node

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I want to install typescript with npm - sudo npm i -g typescript. I got back this:

npm does not support Node.js v10.19.0 You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we can't make any promises that npm will work with this version. You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/ /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:32 #unloaded = false ^ SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:723:23) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32) at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17) at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18) at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli.js:22:15) at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:2:25) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)

I checked the versions for both node and npm. For node i have v16.14.0 and for npm i have 8.9.0.

Anyway, i followed the procedure to update node with these commands:

sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo node latest

But for every command, i got back the exact same error posted above. So it seems i am stuck. Any ideas?

According to this, the NodeJS version is v10.19.0. Can you confirm the version is not overridden in package.json file as done here? — Lalit Fauzdar
– Lalit Fauzdar, Commented May 9, 2022 at 19:54
@LalitFauzdar I do not have a package.json file. I just issued these commands on the terminal. — user1584421
– user1584421, Commented May 9, 2022 at 21:26
If it's not a project, then surely you've an old version of node. Try doing a fresh re-install after removing it. — Lalit Fauzdar
– Lalit Fauzdar, Commented May 10, 2022 at 3:42
I uninstalled node succesfully, but for some reason node and npm remains and now everything works fine! It's like i had two versions of node on top of each other and everything kept crashing. I still am not sure what happened, but now everything works. — user1584421
– user1584421, Commented May 10, 2022 at 17:55

Arthur Medeiros · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-09 22:11:13Z

Are you using NVM? Because it seems that you npm version is not compatible with you node version.

I only got a similar error, when running an older node version with a newer npm version

ERROR: npm is known not to run on Node.js v10.19.0 You'll need to upgrade to a newer Node.js version in order to use this version of npm. You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/

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