npm does not support Node.js v10.19.0

[barjenbruchlaw]

Details

I cannot access npm right now. My node version is 10.19.0, and my npm version is 6.14. Here is the error message I am getting:

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. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:2:25)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)

I have installed nodejs and npm from the command line.

Node.js version

10.19.0

Example code

No response

Operating system

Kubuntu 20.04

Scope

Global

Module and version

Not applicable.

[rbjnazz]

same to me on linux mint xfce

same on Rasbian

[EladAvni]

Same on Ubuntu 20

[theguitarvity]

anyone has fixed this?

[harikishantk]

Update node to current version

[JoKalliauer]

Update node to current version

How?
(PS I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL on Windows 11-21H2)

[JoKalliauer]

I improved the post because of a later post by @calisven

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

according to https://askubuntu.com/a/1382566/676490
And it worked, whithout any problems. :-D

[hassonor]

Thank you JoKalliauer

[calisven]

I used

# Using Ubuntu
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_current.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

according to https://askubuntu.com/a/548776/676490. And it worked. :-D

JoKalliauer I don't think this is a valid solution. Doing so would very likely cause breaking changes in the application as this would install the latest version of Node (currently 16.x) which is a big jump from 10.x. If you have a reasonably large Node app this would likely be a very bad idea unless you are willing to also fix any breaking changes that occur during the upgrade.
Update: It actually installs Node 17.x, which is even worse as it's not even LTS

[JoKalliauer]

@calisven Thanks for your input. I don't have knowledge about node/npm. For me everything works with nodejs17.2, so I don't know what should be broken. Since the update it is less brocken than before.

Do you think updating to Node.js12 might be the best workaround?

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Or should we downgrade npm to 6.14.12? (How?)

[Karlblock]

@JoKalliauer Thanks bro !

[ToucanBran]

@calisven Thanks for your input. I don't have knowledge about node/npm. For me everything works with nodejs17.2, so I don't know what should be broken. Since the update it is less brocken than before.

Do you think updating to Node.js12 might be the best workaround?

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Or should we downgrade npm to 6.14.12? (How?)

I think we really need the node devs to weigh in on this at this point. This is pretty unacceptable since many applications run on lower versions were working and now are suddenly not...

[maxbettercloud]

If you have nvm you can try re-installing node versions. Make sure you switch to the version of node for which your npm works first. For example switch to node 8 and then re-install other versions.

nvm use 8
nvm uninstall 10
nvm uninstall  12
nvm install 10
nvm install 12
nvm use 10
nvm alias default 10   
nvm uninstall 8