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[Discuss] node.js and npm on Debian?
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- From: kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:23:09 -0500
For work I need to mess with node.js, unfortunately. So I installed node.js: ? apt-get install nodejs But I can't figure out how to install npm. When I search for installation instructions they all seem to want me to pipe a curl command into a sudo bash. Huh? That's scary as hell. Why is there no .deb for npm? What is so dangerous or otherwise skanky about npm that Debian 9 doesn't include it? Why should I let it have root privileges? It isn't as if Javascript has a great security reputation. And when they brag: "npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world", that doesn't make it sound very well vetted. -kb, the Kent who might have to fire up a VM to try to isolate this beast (if only VMs actually offered much isolation).
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