Trying to install NodeJS 16 on ubuntu 22.04.
Ran the official installation instructions:
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Got the following error:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nodejs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/27.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 128 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package nodejs.
(Reading database ... 218989 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nodejs_16.17.0-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nodejs (16.17.0-deb-1nodesource1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_16.17.0-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/include/node/common.gypi', which is also in package libnode-dev 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_16.17.0-deb-1nodesource1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)