Using sudo gives me a different version of node than what I have

johannes

12/6/23, 10:19 AM

I am on Ubuntu 22.04 and trying to install angular/cli globally. I am getting this warning:

npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: 'pacote@15.0.6',
npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: { node: '^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v12.22.9', npm: '8.10.0' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }

I found multiple questions on stackoverflow regarding this problem. The answers all point at using a stable version of node. I have node version 18.12.1 which currently is the latest stable version and npm version 8.19.2 that comes with it.

Now I know that people will be asking in the comments if I have node version 18.12.1 installed, so here it is:

jan@ubuntu-22-04:~$ node -v
v18.12.1
jan@ubuntu-22-04:~$ npm -v
8.19.2
jan@ubuntu-22-04:~$

But then the warning seems to suggest that I have node version 12.22.9 and npm version 8.10.0.

npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v12.22.9', npm: '8.10.0' }

So what is going on??? Is my understanding of the warning incorrect? Is there a Ubuntu-problem that I don´t understand? Can anybody please help me out?

EDIT: It looks like I have two different versions of node. Look at this:

jan@ubuntu-22-04:~$ node -v
v18.12.1
jan@ubuntu-22-04:~$ sudo node -v
v12.22.9
jan@ubuntu-22-04:~$ npm -v
8.19.2
jan@ubuntu-22-04:~$ sudo npm -v
8.10.0

Using sudo gives me version 12.22.9 as the warning states. I still don´t know how to solve it. Can anybody help?

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user4556274

12/6/23, 1:03 PM

Where have you installed the two versions of `node` ? `type -p node` and `sudo bash -c 'type -p node'` (adjust if your preferred shell is not `bash`)

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