Latest nodejs installed but still having the old npm version here

[binarykitchen]

Just did this on Ubuntu 14.10:

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
...
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs 
...
$ npm -v
1.4.28

How come I do not have npm v2.x here?

$ sudo apt-cache policy nodejs
nodejs:
  Installed: 0.10.33-2nodesource1~utopic1
  Candidate: 0.10.33-2nodesource1~utopic1
  Version table:
 *** 0.10.33-2nodesource1~utopic1 0
        500 https://deb.nodesource.com/node/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages

[rvagg]

We are currently sticking with the version of npm that shipped with that version of Node. We have discussed releasing and alternative package or repo that has the latest included but until we have a complet, solid test suite to verify the match we don't want to risk the mismatch. Ultimately this is an issue to take up with joyent/node.

[binarykitchen]

Ok, thanks for explaining!