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I am using Kubuntu. I am looking into installing a plugin to help in javascript. This seems to be good jshint but it mention npm install
What is this? My understanding is that in Kubuntu I should only use sudo apt-get to install packages and not yum or anything else. What is this npm? Should I use it or will I have conflict issues with my package manager?

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  • What is your goal here? From the tags you used it seems you are just looking to use it as an editor plugin for syntax highlighting/error detection. What version of Kubuntu are you running? – Seth Aug 22 '14 at 18:17
  • @Seth:You are right. Ubunty 13.10 – Jim Aug 22 '14 at 18:34

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Npm is a node.js module/package manager. It can work without root privileges, installing into your home directory. As a consequence, unless you use npm install -g (as root, globally), there won't be any conflicts with the native package management system.

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npm is node.js package manager. First you need to install npm on your system.

Add repository first

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js

Then install npm

apt-get update
apt-get install npm

Then you can install the module with npm as the site suggests.

npm install jshint
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