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Labs has an old version of node installed (0.10), to get v6 (current LTS) with a newer npm...

  1. Use nodesource's instructions to get their deb repo setup
  • Example for node 6: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
  1. Check the names of the versions of the nodejs package with apt-cache policy nodejs
  2. Run apt-get install with the correct version to install (apt-get install package=version)
  • Example: sudo apt-get install nodejs=6.9.5-1nodesource1~trusty1
  1. If you're going to need native modules, apt-get install -y build-essential
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