atom uses an older version of npm in atom terminal; my system has a newer version installed. Why?

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Description

The version of npm that is used in atom terminal (package name is termination) is 6.14.8. My system however has npm 7.24.0 installed. I would like atom to use npm 7.24.0

Steps to Reproduce

$ npm --version
6.14.8

Expected behavior:

$ npm --version
7.24.0

Actual behavior:

$ npm --version
6.14.8

Reproduces how often:

100%

Versions

Atom : 1.58.0
Electron: 9.4.4
Chrome : 83.0.4103.122
Node : 12.14.1
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.4-1-rt11-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor
Memory: 31.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 580 Series

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