[ERROR] npm not available anymore after installing nodejs on Debian

[gremo]

Describe your bug
npm is not available anymore aflter installing nodejs package on Debian. I'm pretty sure it was installed with nodejs ultil December maybe, I'm maintaing some Docker images with Node and npm was always installed with it.

Distribution Information:

• OS: Debian
• Version: 12 (bookworm)

Node Version:

• Node: 18

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior (NODE_VERSION is 18 in this case):

mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_$NODE_VERSION.x nodistro main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs

Expected behavior
npm executable is installed along with node.

[riosje]

Hi @gremo if you run node -v what's the output?
I think you did not install node18, somehow you installed an older version of node.
Try our installation script is really easy

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash - &&\
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

[gremo]

Thanks @riosje , actually the problem is a duplicate of #1601

Using the "pin" method it works now, see the comments on that issue. I don't know what's the problem and why it worked before (around December as I said)

[riosje]

@gremo I'm glad it is working now for you.
Yes as you mentions it is needed to use the pin option, that's why I ask you to use our installation script which creates the repo properly.